Intel Core i7-3770K vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-3770K vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-3770K beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-3770K has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3770K.

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 i7-3770K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.