Intel Core i7-2630QM vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i7-2630QM vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2630QM is faster than the Phenom II X4 B50. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 B50 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-2630QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2630QM.

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 i7-2630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.