Intel Core i7-920 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-920 vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-920 performs better than the Phenom II X4 945. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 945 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-920 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945

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.