Intel Core i7-3630QM vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i7-3630QM vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3630QM performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3630QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3630QM.

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