Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-870 vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1065T performs better than the Core i7-870. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-870 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-870. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1065T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-870. Despite this, the Core i7-870 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-870 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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.