Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-7600U vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-7600U beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Athlon II X3 450 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7600U. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7600U. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7600U.

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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.