Intel Core i7-4810MQ vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Core i7-4810MQ vs Phenom II X4 960T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4810MQ beats the Phenom II X4 960T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 960T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-4810MQ has 3 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4810MQ has more threads than the Phenom II X4 960T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4810MQ. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4810MQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-4810MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.