Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i5-12600K vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12600K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-12600K has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 955 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 955. According to our data, the Core i5-12600K and Phenom II X4 955 have the same clock speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.