Intel Core i3-7100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i3-7100 vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 965 is faster than the Core i3-7100. Despite this, the Core i3-7100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i3-7100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 965. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-7100. The Phenom II X4 965 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.