Intel Core i7-6650U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-6650U vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X3 450 is faster than the Core i7-6650U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6650U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores whereas the Core i7-6650U has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6650U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6650U.

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 i7-6650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.