Intel Core i7-7660U vs AMD FX-9830P

Core i7-7660U vs FX-9830P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-7660U is faster than the FX-9830P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9830P in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-9830P has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i7-7660U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-9830P has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7660U.

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 i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.