Intel Core i5-4210M vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-4210M vs Athlon II X3 450 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4210M performs better 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 i5-4210M has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-4210M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210M.

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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.