Intel Core i5-2300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 955

Price

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$ 35.00

$ 24.01 significantly less expensive

$ 59.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1738 points

5% slightly better overall score

1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3210 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1327 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1214 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.92 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

769th of 1,089

781st of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-2300 vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2300 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and 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 i5-2300.

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. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.