Intel Core i7-960 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-960 vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1065T is faster than the Core i7-960. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-960 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 i7-960 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-960 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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.