Intel Core i7-3770 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-3770 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3770 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-3770 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-3770 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-3770 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.