Intel Core i7-8650U vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i7-8650U vs Phenom II X4 980 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8650U beats the Phenom II X4 980 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-8650U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8650U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 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 980.

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