Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Pentium Gold G6405 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6405 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores than the Pentium Gold G6405. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 955 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium Gold G6405. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 955.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Pentium Gold G6405 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.