AMD A10-7890K vs Intel Core i7-3630QM

A10-7890K vs Core i7-3630QM specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3630QM beats the A10-7890K in overall performance. Despite this, the A10-7890K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-3630QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A10-7890K that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A10-7890K. Our comparison shows that the A10-7890K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM. Also, the A10-7890K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-3630QM outputs less heat than A10-7890K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 A10-7890K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.