Intel Core i5-3330 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i5-3330 vs Phenom II X4 965 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3330 beats the Phenom II X4 965 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3330.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-3330 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.