Intel Core i7-4600M vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-4600M vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4600M beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4600M. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4600M. But they both have the same number of threads. Both the Core i7-4600M and Athlon II X4 635 have the same clock speed.

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 i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.