Intel Pentium 6805 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Pentium 6805 vs Athlon X4 950 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium 6805 beats the Athlon X4 950 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 950 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium 6805 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 950 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium 6805. Also, the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Pentium 6805 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 950 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium 6805

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Pentium 6805 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.