Intel Core i7-3820QM vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i7-3820QM vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-3820QM performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-3820QM has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM.

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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.