AMD FX-4100 vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

FX-4100 vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-4100 beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the FX-4100 that has 2 cores. Despite this, the FX-4100 has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X3 450. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4100 has slightly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X3 450

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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.