Intel Core i7-3520M vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-3520M vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3520M is faster than the Athlon II X3 450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 450 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3520M. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 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 450. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3520M.

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 i7-3520M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.