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 Core i5-4310M 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.

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.