Intel Core i7-8650U vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i7-8650U vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8650U beats the Phenom II X4 965 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-8650U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8650U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 965.

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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.