AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel Xeon X5470

Phenom II X4 955 vs Xeon X5470 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5470 performs better than the Phenom II X4 955. 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. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5470. The info from our database shows that the Xeon X5470 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Phenom II X4 955 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.