Intel Core i7-3540M vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-3540M vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 635 is faster than the Core i7-3540M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3540M 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 i7-3540M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-3540M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.