AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel Core i7-4930MX

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-4930MX

Price

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$ 59.01

$ 240.00 significantly less expensive

$ 299.01

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1654 points

2463 points

48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3032 points

4049 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1265 points

2003 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1214 points

1926 points

58% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.93 points

50.02 points

164% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

781st of 1,089

636th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Phenom II X4 955 vs Core i7-4930MX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4930MX 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-4930MX has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4930MX. In terms of cache, the Core i7-4930MX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 955

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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 955 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.