Intel Core i7-3540M vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i7-3540M vs FX-9830P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3540M is faster than the FX-9830P. Despite this, the FX-9830P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-9830P has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3540M. Indeed, the FX-9830P has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-3540M. But they both have the same number of threads. According to our data, the Core i7-3540M and FX-9830P 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.