AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel N97

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

1654 points

1707 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3032 points

3251 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1265 points

1290 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1214 points

1238 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.93 points

33.82 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

85% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

2 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

781st of 1,089

773rd of 1,089

Phenom II X4 955 vs N97 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the N97 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 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 N97. The info from our database shows that the N97 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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