Intel Core i7-7660U vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-7660U vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Core i7-7660U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-7660U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 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 Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-7660U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-7660U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.