Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Core i7-950 vs Athlon X4 750K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-950 performs better than the Athlon X4 750K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 750K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 750K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 750K. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 750K 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.