Intel Core i7-860 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Core i7-860 vs Phenom II X4 960T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 960T beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-860.

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 i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.