Intel Core i7-4600M vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-4600M vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4600M is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4600M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4600M.

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 i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.