Intel Core i5-3550S vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-3550S vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3550S beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-3550S has slightly more cores than the Athlon II X3 450. Indeed, the Core i5-3550S has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Athlon II X3 450. It also 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 i5-3550S.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.