Intel Core i7-3612QM vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Core i7-3612QM vs Athlon Gold 3150U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon Gold 3150U is faster than the Core i7-3612QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3612QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3612QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon Gold 3150U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon Gold 3150U. Our comparison shows that the Athlon Gold 3150U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3612QM. Also, the Athlon Gold 3150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 3150U outputs less heat than Core i7-3612QM thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-3612QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.