Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon II X3 450

Core i7-950 vs Athlon II X3 450 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the Athlon II X3 450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X3 450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon II X3 450 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X3 450. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X3 450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950.

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 i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.