AMD FX-6300 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

FX-6300 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-6300 beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 955 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 955 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-6300 that has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Phenom II X4 955. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-6300. In terms of cache, the FX-6300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 955

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. Indeed, the FX-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.