Intel Core i7-3540M vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i7-3540M vs Athlon II X4 651 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3540M. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 651 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3540M. But they both have the same number of threads. Both the Core i7-3540M and Athlon II X4 651 have the same clock speed.

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 i7-3540M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.