Intel Core i7-975 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i7-975 vs Phenom II X6 1045T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-975 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1045T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-975. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-975. Despite this, the Core i7-975 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-975 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1045T.

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