Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i7-7500U vs Athlon II X4 640 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 640 beats the Core i7-7500U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7500U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7500U.

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