Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Core i7-950 vs Athlon II X4 635 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon II X4 635 performs better than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Athlon II X4 635.

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.