AMD Athlon II X4 635 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.02
$ 397.03 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1373 points
10982 points
699% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2505 points
13108 points
423% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1054 points
10252 points
872% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1011 points
10031 points
892% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

854 points
18346 points
2048% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

292 points
3336 points
1042% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
4.7 GHz
62% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
8 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

847th of 1,089
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Athlon II X4 635 vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more cores than the Athlon II X4 635. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Athlon II X4 635. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X4 635. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 635. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 635 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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