Intel Core i5-7500 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 965

Price

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$ 73.80

$ 64.02

$ 9.78 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2458 points

38% slightly better overall score

1773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4565 points

40% slightly better gaming score

3249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1872 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

1356 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1797 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

1300 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.70 points

187% significantly higher Blender score

16.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

Identical

3.4 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

637th of 1,089

762nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-7500 vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-7500 performs better than the Phenom II X4 965. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Core i5-7500 and Phenom II X4 965 have the same clock speed. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-7500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.