Intel Core i5-4310M vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i5-4310M vs Phenom II X4 B50 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 B50 performs better than the Core i5-4310M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4310M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4310M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4310M.

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 i5-4310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.