AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Phenom II X4 955 vs Phenom II X4 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 980 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Phenom II X4 955 and Phenom II X4 980 are identical in this regard. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache than 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.