Intel Core i7-4600M vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i7-4600M vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 651 is faster than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-4600M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 651 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600M.

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