Intel Core i7-2600K vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-2600K vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2600K is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-2600K has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600K.

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 i7-2600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.