Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Athlon X4 760K

Core i7-950 vs Athlon X4 760K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Athlon X4 760K is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 760K. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 760K. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.