AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Core i7-4810MQ

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1463 points

1976 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2727 points

3270 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1106 points

1601 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1058 points

1538 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.73 points

48.85 points

210% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points

3141 points

233% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

308 points

1012 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

948 points

3224 points

240% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

313 points

1110 points

254% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

2.79 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

819th of 1,089

724th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Athlon II X4 640 vs Core i7-4810MQ specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4810MQ is faster than the Athlon II X4 640. Despite this, the Athlon II X4 640 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4810MQ has 3 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4810MQ has more threads than the Athlon II X4 640. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4810MQ. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4810MQ

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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.