AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core i7-4712MQ

Athlon II X4 640 vs Core i7-4712MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4712MQ is faster than the Athlon II X4 640. Despite this, the Athlon II X4 640 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4712MQ

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.