Intel Pentium G4560 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Pentium G4560 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the Pentium G4560. Despite this, the Pentium G4560 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G4560 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G4560. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 Pentium G4560 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.