Intel Core i7-7600U vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-7600U vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the Core i7-7600U. Despite this, the Core i7-7600U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-7600U. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-7600U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7600U.

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 i7-7600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.