Intel Core i7-3612QM vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Core i7-3612QM vs Phenom II X4 960T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3612QM is faster than the Phenom II X4 960T. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 960T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3612QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has a much higher clock speed than the Core i7-3612QM.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-3612QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.