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 Phenom II X4 B50 is faster than the Core i7-2630QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2630QM in all gaming tests too.

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.