Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon II X4 651

Core i7-950 vs Athlon II X4 651 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 651 beats the Core i7-950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 651.

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.