Intel Core i7-3612QM vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i7-3612QM vs Phenom II X4 B50 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3612QM performs better than the Phenom II X4 B50. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 B50 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3612QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3612QM.

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 i7-3612QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.