Intel Pentium Gold G6400 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Pentium Gold G6400 vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1055T beats the Pentium Gold G6400 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium Gold G6400 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6400. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6400. It also has more threads than the Pentium Gold G6400. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6400 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Pentium Gold G6400. The Phenom II X6 1055T 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.