Intel Pentium Silver J5040 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare Intel Pentium Silver Series 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1289 points

1654 points

28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2434 points

3032 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

978 points

1265 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

939 points

1214 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

20.05 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.7 GHz

85% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

872nd of 1,089

781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Pentium Silver Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Pentium Silver J5040 vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 955 performs better than the Pentium Silver J5040. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver J5040 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium Silver J5040.

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. For instance, the Pentium Silver J5040 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.