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 Phenom II X4 945 is faster than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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.