AMD FX-4300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

FX-4300 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 955 is faster than the FX-4300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4300 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-4300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 955. In terms of cache, the FX-4300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 955

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 FX-4300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.