Intel Pentium G4600 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Pentium G4600 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 955 beats the Pentium G4600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G4600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G4600 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G4600. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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 G4600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.