Intel Core i7-8500Y vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-8500Y vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon II X4 635 is faster than the Core i7-8500Y. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8500Y 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 i7-8500Y 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8500Y.

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 i7-8500Y has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.