Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-7500U vs Athlon II X4 635 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 635 performs better than the Core i7-7500U. Despite this, the Core i7-7500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7500U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U.

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 i7-7500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.