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 Athlon II X4 635 performs better than the Core i7-7600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7600U 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.