Intel Core i7-975 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i7-975 vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-975 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1055T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-975 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-975 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-975 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-975 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.