Intel Core i5-760 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 53.76
$ 52.02
$ 1.74 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1502 points
0.40% slightly better overall score
1496 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2755 points
2813 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1150 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
1133 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1104 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
1088 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1259 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

448 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
354 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.80 GHz
3 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

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

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

808th of 1,089
809th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-760 vs Phenom II X4 960T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-760 beats the Phenom II X4 960T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 960T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-760. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-760. Despite this, the Core i5-760 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 960T.

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. For instance, the Core i5-760 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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