Intel Core i7-930 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i7-930 vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-930 beats the Phenom II X6 1055T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-930. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-930. Despite this, the Core i7-930 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Both the Core i7-930 and Phenom II X6 1055T have the same clock speed.

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.