Intel Core i5-4288U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i5-4288U vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X3 450 beats the Core i5-4288U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4288U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4288U. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4288U. Despite this, the Core i5-4288U 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 i5-4288U.

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