Can synchronized blocks be faster than Atomics?

Suppose two following counter implementations:

class Counter {
  private final AtomicInteger atomic = new AtomicInteger(0);
  private int i = 0;

  public void incrementAtomic() {
    atomic.incrementAndGet();
  }

  public synchronized void increment() {
    i++;
  }
}

At first glance atomics should be faster and more scalable. And they are, I believe. But are they faster than synchronized blocks all the time? Or some situations exists when this rule is broken (e.g. SMP/Single CPU machine, different CPU ISA, OS'es etc.)?