Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-7600U vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7600U performs better than the Athlon II X4 635. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7600U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U.

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