AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD 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

1773 points

1840 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3249 points

3383 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1356 points

1405 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1300 points

1349 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.61 points

22.79 points

37% slightly 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

3.4 GHz

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

762nd of 1,089

752nd of 1,089

Phenom II X4 965 vs Phenom II X4 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 965 is faster than the Phenom II X4 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 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 980 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 965. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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.