Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 2 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1234 points

1399 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2391 points

2628 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

922 points

1061 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points

1018 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.63 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

19.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.8 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

892nd of 1,089

840th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7600U vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 760K performs better than the Core i7-7600U. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed than 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.