Intel Core i3-1115G4 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i3 2 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

1829 points
10% slightly better overall score
1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points
21% slightly better gaming score
3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1348 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1293 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
1214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.31 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.00 GHz
3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
400% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

755th of 1,089
781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i3
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i3-1115G4 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-1115G4 beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 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 i3-1115G4 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1115G4. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-1115G4 has significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i3-1115G4 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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