Intel Core i7-2630QM vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i7-2630QM vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2630QM beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X4 640 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-2630QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2630QM.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-2630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.