Intel Core i7-3540M vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i7-3540M vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i7-3540M in overall performance. 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 640 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. According to our data, the Core i7-3540M and Athlon II X4 640 have the same clock speed.

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.