Intel Pentium Gold G6405 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Pentium Gold G6405 vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Pentium Gold G6405 beats the Phenom II X4 980 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium Gold G6405 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Pentium Gold G6405 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 980.

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 G6405 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.