AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs Intel N97

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1773 points

3% slightly better overall score

1707 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3249 points

3251 points

0.06% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1356 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1290 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1300 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1238 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.61 points

33.82 points

103% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

762nd of 1,089

773rd of 1,089

Phenom II X4 965 vs N97 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 965 beats the N97 in overall performance. Despite this, the N97 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N97. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 965 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.