Intel Core i7-4610M vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-4610M vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4610M beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X3 450 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4610M. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4610M. Despite this, the Core i7-4610M has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4610M.

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 i7-4610M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.