Intel Core i7-7500U vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i7-7500U vs FX-9830P benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-9830P 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 FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7500U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-9830P 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.