AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD 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

1406 points
1654 points
17% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2588 points
3032 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1074 points
1265 points
17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1032 points
1214 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

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

835th of 1,089
781st of 1,089

Athlon II X4 651 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 955 is faster than the Athlon II X4 651. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 651. The info from our database shows that the Athlon II X4 651 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 Athlon II X4 651 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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