Intel Core i7-960 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i7-960 vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-960 is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-960 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-960.

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