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 Core i7-4600M is faster than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

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.