AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs Intel Celeron G6900

Phenom II X4 965 vs Celeron G6900 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 965 performs better than the Celeron G6900. Despite this, the Celeron G6900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more cores than the Celeron G6900. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Celeron G6900. It also has more threads than the Celeron G6900. Both the Phenom II X4 965 and Celeron G6900 have the same clock speed. The info from our database shows that the Celeron G6900 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Celeron G6900.

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 965 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.