Intel Pentium G3260 vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Pentium G3260 vs Athlon II X3 450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X3 450 beats the Pentium G3260 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G3260 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 Pentium G3260 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3260. Our comparison shows that the Pentium G3260 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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. For instance, the Pentium G3260 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.