Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Phenom II X4 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 980 is faster than the Pentium Gold G6400. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium Gold G6400 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 980. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G6400. The Phenom II X4 980 also has significantly more L3 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 G6400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.