Intel Core i7-2670QM vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i7-2670QM vs Athlon II X3 425 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2670QM beats the Athlon II X3 425 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 425 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-2670QM has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X3 425 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2670QM.

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 i7-2670QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.