Intel Core i3-7350K vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i3-7350K vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 955 beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-7350K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i3-7350K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 955. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches

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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.