AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Athlon II X4 640 vs Phenom II X4 960T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Athlon II X4 640 and Phenom II X4 960T are identical in this regard. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.