Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Core i7-920 vs Athlon X4 950 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 950 is faster than the Core i7-920. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-920 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. Also, the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon X4 950 outputs less heat than Core i7-920 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i7-920 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon X4 950

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 i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.