AMD A10-7850K vs Intel Core i7-950

A10-7850K vs Core i7-950 comparison

In our benchmarks, the A10-7850K beats the Core i7-950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores than the A10-7850K. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A10-7850K. It also has more threads than the A10-7850K. Our comparison shows that the A10-7850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950. A A10-7850K CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-950 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A10-7850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.