AMD A6-6400K vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 1 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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$ 75.00

$ 59.01

$ 15.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

811 points

1654 points

103% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1725 points

3032 points

75% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

592 points

1265 points

113% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

570 points

1214 points

112% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

11.64 points

18.93 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,001st of 1,089

781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-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

Yes

A6-6400K vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the A6-6400K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6400K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A6-6400K has 1 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-6400K. With our hardware info, we find that the A6-6400K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 955. In terms of cache, the A6-6400K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 955

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 A6-6400K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.