AMD A10-7890K vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

A10-7890K vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 635 beats the A10-7890K in overall performance. Despite this, the A10-7890K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A10-7890K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635. In terms of cache, the A10-7890K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X4 635

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.