Intel Core i7-930 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i7-930 vs Phenom II X6 1045T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-930 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-930 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-930 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-930 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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.