Intel Core i5-4300M vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i5-4300M vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4300M 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4300M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4300M.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-4300M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.