Intel Core i7-975 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i7-975 vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-975 performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-975 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-975.

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 i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.