Intel Core i7-960 vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Core i7-960 vs Athlon II X4 640 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-960 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640.

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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.