Intel Core i7-950 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-950 vs Phenom II X6 1065T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-950 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1065T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-950 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-950 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1065T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.