Intel Core i7-4600M vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Core i7-4600M vs Phenom II X4 960T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T performs better than the Core i7-4600M. Despite this, the Core i7-4600M has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4600M. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 960T has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-4600M. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4600M.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4600M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.