Intel Core i5-4288U vs AMD Athlon II X3 445

Core i5-4288U vs Athlon II X3 445 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4288U performs better than the Athlon II X3 445. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 445 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i5-4288U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-4288U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4288U.

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 i5-4288U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.