Intel Core i5-4570T vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i5-4570T vs FX-9830P comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-9830P beats the Core i5-4570T in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4570T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4570T has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4570T. The info from our database shows that the FX-9830P has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4570T

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-4570T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.