Intel Core i7-3630QM vs AMD Athlon 3000G

Core i7-3630QM vs Athlon 3000G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon 3000G beats the Core i7-3630QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3630QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3630QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 3000G. Our comparison shows that the Athlon 3000G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM. The Athlon 3000G outputs less heat than Core i7-3630QM thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.