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