Intel Core i3-4170 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Core i3-4170 vs Phenom II X4 960T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T performs better than the Core i3-4170. Despite this, the Core i3-4170 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-4170 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-4170 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 960T.

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 Core i3-4170 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.