Intel Core i7-3630QM vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.00
$ 48.02
$ 180.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points
30% slightly better overall score
1464 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2976 points
9% slightly better gaming score
2724 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1587 points
43% significantly better multitasking score
1109 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1523 points
43% significantly better heavy workload score
1061 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.41 points
131% significantly higher Blender score
15.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1885 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
943 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
308 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1900 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

561 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
313 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

754th of 1,121
842nd of 1,121

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3630QM vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3630QM performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3630QM has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM.

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.

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