Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i7-870 vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-870 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T 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 1055T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T.

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.