Intel Core i5-4310M vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i5-4310M vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 635 beats the Core i5-4310M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4310M 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 i5-4310M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4310M.

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 i5-4310M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.