Intel Pentium Gold 7505 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Pentium Gold 7505 vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the Pentium Gold 7505. Despite this, the Pentium Gold 7505 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 Gold 7505 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads.

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 Gold 7505 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.