Intel Core i5-3340M vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-3340M vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3340M is faster than the Athlon II X3 450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 450 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-3340M has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-3340M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3340M.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-3340M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.