Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i7-870 vs Phenom II X6 1045T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-870 beats the Phenom II X6 1045T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-870 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-870 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.