Intel Core i7-2820QM vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-2820QM vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-2820QM is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 955 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-2820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2820QM.

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 i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.