Core i7-3520M vs Athlon II X3 445 comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3520M 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.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 445 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3520M. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 445 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3520M. Despite this, the Core i7-3520M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 445. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 445 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3520M.
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 i7-3520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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