Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i7-870 vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-870 performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-870 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-870.

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 i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.