Intel Core i7-7660U vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i7-7660U vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 640 performs better than the Core i7-7660U. Despite this, the Core i7-7660U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i7-7660U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7660U.

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 i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.