Intel Core i5-4210H vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i5-4210H vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4210H performs better than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-4210H that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i5-4210H and Athlon II X4 635 are identical in this regard.

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 Core i5-4210H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.