Intel Core i7-3635QM vs AMD FX-9830P

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1425 points
4% slightly better overall score
1362 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2141 points
2574 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1221 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
1031 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1185 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score
990 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2446 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1621 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

636 points
Identical
636 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1792 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1465 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

533 points
613 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

851st of 1,118
872nd of 1,118

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 i7-3635QM vs FX-9830P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3635QM is faster than the FX-9830P. Despite this, the FX-9830P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3635QM has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9830P has a slightly 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.

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