Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Phenom II X4 965 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Pentium Gold G6400 is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6400 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 965. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium Gold G6400. The Phenom II X4 965 also has significantly more L3 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 Gold G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.