Intel Core i7-3930K vs AMD Custom 0405

Core i7-3930K vs Custom 0405 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Custom 0405 beats the Core i7-3930K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3930K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores than the Custom 0405. Indeed, the Core i7-3930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Custom 0405. It also has more threads than the Custom 0405. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-3930K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Custom 0405.

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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.