Intel Core i7-4702MQ vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-4702MQ vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4702MQ is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 955 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-4702MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4702MQ

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 i7-4702MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.