Intel Core i5-4460S vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 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

1911 points

3% slightly better overall score

1840 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3523 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3383 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1459 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1405 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1403 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

1349 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.53 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

22.79 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2749 points

123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1026 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 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

2.9 GHz

3.7 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

736th of 1,089

752nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-4460S vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4460S beats the Phenom II X4 980 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4460S.

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 i5-4460S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.