AMD Athlon X4 970 vs Intel Core i3-4160T

AMD Athlon X4 970
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2017
AMD Athlon X4 970
Intel Core i3-4160T
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
3100 MHz / Cores: 2 / Jul 2014
Intel Core i3-4160T

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-4160T
    122%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    100%
  • Intel Core i3-4160T
    148%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    102%
  • Intel Core i3-4160T
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Athlon X4 970

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i3-4160T

Much higher single threaded performance (around 48% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Athlon X4 970.

No winner

Gaming

No clear winner declared


No winner

Productivity

No clear winner declared



Specifications

Features

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Core i3-4160T
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
SSE4A
AMD64
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
FMA3
FMA4
F16C
TBM
XOP
AMD-V
EVP
Turbo Core
SSSE3
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
Hyper-Threading
AES-NI
TSX
CLMUL

Architecture

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Core i3-4160T
ArchitectureAMD ExcavatorvsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameBristol RidgevsHaswell
Release DateJul 2017vsJul 2014

Cores

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Core i3-4160T
Cores4vs2
Threads4vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD 4400

Cache

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Core i3-4160T
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache0 KBvs3072 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Core i3-4160T
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Temp74°Cvs72°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
Die Size246mm²vs177mm²
Process28 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Athlon X4 970Intel Core i3-4160T
Cpu Frequency3800 MHzvs3100 MHz
Turbo Clock4000 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltage1.475 Vvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs35 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    2760 points
  • Intel Core i3-4160T
    3472 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Athlon X4 970
    9124 points
  • Intel Core i3-4160T
    8332 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon X4 970 (simulated)
    84.76
  • Intel Core i3-4160T (simulated)
    125.59

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Athlon X4 970 (simulated)
    319
  • Intel Core i3-4160T (simulated)
    310

points - higher is better