Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-6500U vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 635 is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Despite this, the Core i7-6500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U.

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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.