Intel Core i7-4712MQ vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 768.00
$ 59.01
$ 708.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1744 points
5% slightly better overall score
1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2886 points
3032 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1409 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1352 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
1214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.27 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.30 GHz
3.7 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
0.5 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

767th of 1,089
781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-4712MQ vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 955 beats the Core i7-4712MQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4712MQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4712MQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4712MQ. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4712MQ

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 i7-4712MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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