AMD A6-9500 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 2 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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$ 50.00

$ 9.01 slightly less expensive

$ 59.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

790 points

1654 points

109% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1734 points

3032 points

74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

567 points

1265 points

123% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

550 points

1214 points

120% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

12.14 points

18.93 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.7 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

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

1,006th 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

2016 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A6-9500 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the A6-9500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-9500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A6-9500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-9500. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the A6-9500. The info from our database shows that the A6-9500 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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 A6-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.