AMD A10-6700 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 955

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 59.01

$ 39.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1454 points

1654 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2783 points

3032 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1092 points

1265 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1046 points

1214 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.53 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

Identical

3.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

821st of 1,089

781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A10-6700 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 955 beats the A10-6700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A10-6700 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the A10-6700 and Phenom II X4 955 are identical in this regard. The info from our database shows that the A10-6700 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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. For instance, the A10-6700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.