Intel Core i7-3635QM vs AMD FX-870K

Core i7-3635QM vs FX-870K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-870K beats the Core i7-3635QM in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3635QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3635QM has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-870K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-870K. Our comparison shows that the FX-870K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3635QM.

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 i7-3635QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.