Intel Core i7-4610M vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i7-4610M vs Athlon II X4 651 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 651 performs better than the Core i7-4610M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4610M 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 i7-4610M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-4610M and Athlon II X4 651 are identical in this regard.

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.