Intel Core i5-6300HQ vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Compare Intel 6th 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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AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Price

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$ 1918.00

$ 52.02

$ 1865.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1438 points

1496 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2667 points

2813 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1096 points

1133 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1053 points

1088 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2777 points

179% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1025 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

354 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

2.3 GHz

3 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

826th of 1,089

809th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6300HQ vs Phenom II X4 960T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 960T beats the Core i5-6300HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300HQ in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300HQ.

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 i5-6300HQ has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.