Intel Core i7 Q 720 vs AMD Athlon II X3 425

Core i7 Q 720 vs Athlon II X3 425 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X3 425 beats the Core i7 Q 720 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 Q 720 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7 Q 720 has slightly more cores than the Athlon II X3 425. Indeed, the Core i7 Q 720 has 4 cores compared to 3 cores found in the Athlon II X3 425. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 425. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X3 425 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7 Q 720. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X3 425 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7 Q 720

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 Q 720 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.