Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core 2 Duo E8500 vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the Core 2 Duo E8500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E8500 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 Core 2 Duo E8500 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E8500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core 2 Duo E8500. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E8500 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 Core 2 Duo E8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.