Intel Pentium Gold G5400 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Pentium Gold G5400 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G5400 beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 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 Gold G5400 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Both the Pentium Gold G5400 and Phenom II X4 955 have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same 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 Gold G5400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.