Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD FX-770K

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1990 points

54% significantly better overall score

1287 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3211 points

31% slightly better gaming score

2439 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1624 points

67% significantly better multitasking score

971 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1559 points

67% significantly better heavy workload score

931 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

18.04 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.06 GHz

3.5 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

3.9 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

721st of 1,089

874th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-950 vs FX-770K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-950 beats the FX-770K in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-770K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-950 has significantly more cores than the FX-770K. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the FX-770K. It also has more threads than the FX-770K. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-770K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-950. Also, the FX-770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The FX-770K outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a significantly 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.