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

Core i5-4300M vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 635 beats the Core i5-4300M in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4300M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.