Core i7-950 vs Athlon X4 870K comparison
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 870K 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.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 870K. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 870K. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 870K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-950. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon X4 870K outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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.
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