Intel Core i5-4200H vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-4200H vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X3 450 performs better than the Core i5-4200H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4200H 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 i5-4200H has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-4200H 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 i5-4200H.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-4200H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.