Intel Core i7-4500U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i7-4500U vs Athlon X4 760K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 760K beats the Core i7-4500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4500U.

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 i7-4500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.