Intel Core i7-4558U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-4558U vs Athlon II X3 450 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4558U 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 i7-4558U. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4558U. Despite this, the Core i7-4558U 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 i7-4558U.

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 i7-4558U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.