Intel Core i7-4720HQ vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-4720HQ vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4720HQ beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 955 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-4720HQ has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4720HQ. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-4720HQ has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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 i7-4720HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.