Intel Core i3-7350K vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i3-7350K vs Phenom II X4 965 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 965 beats the Core i3-7350K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-7350K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7350K. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7350K. 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 965. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-7350K. 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 i3-7350K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.