Intel Core i7-4610M vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i7-4610M vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4610M performs better than the Athlon II X3 425. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 425 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more cores with 3 cores compared to the Core i7-4610M that has 2 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4610M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-4610M has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X3 425.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4610M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.