Intel Core i5-10400F vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i5-10400F vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10400F is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. 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 Core i5-10400F has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Phenom II X4 955 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 955. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. In terms of cache, the Core i5-10400F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 955

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. Indeed, the Core i5-10400F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.