AMD Phenom II X4 980

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Benchmark and Specs

AMD Phenom II X4 980 Processor benchmark and specs - 4 GHz 4 core AMD AM3 CPU rating. Is the Phenom II X4 980 good for gaming?

Benchmark Score

1,840
Average score from 1 sample
High uncertainty
Performance
Average
Ranking
752nd of 1,089
Popularity
934th of 1,089
Samples
1 benchmarks

CPU benchmarks

Here are the performance results of this CPU in both the hardwareDB Benchmark and other benchmark utilities. Synthetic tests are an estimation of real-world performance using consistent and repeatable benchmarks.

Overall

Average

1,840

Gaming

Good

3,383

Multitasking

Average

1,405

Heavy Workloads

Average

1,349

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Alternative benchmarks

Here are some benchmark results using alternative testing software

Blender

Blender

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23
Geekbench 6 (multi)

Geekbench 6 (multi)

Multi threaded benchmark

1,228
Geekbench 6 (single)

Geekbench 6 (single)

Single threaded benchmark

410

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CPU Comparison

The AMD Phenom II X4 980 compared against popular alternatives. Compare against more CPUs with our CPU Comparison Tool.

Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3
2,007 points
Intel Core i7-870
1,923 points
Intel Core i5-4460S
1,911 points
Intel Core i5-2400
1,911 points
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T
1,887 points
AMD Phenom II X4 980
1,840 points
AMD Phenom II X4 955
1,654 points

Specifications

Clock Speed 3.7 GHz
Cores 4
Threads 4
L2 Cache 2 MiB
L3 Cache 6 MiB
Socket AM3

AMD Phenom II X4 980

The Phenom II X4 980 is a 4 core CPU from AMD. This chip has an average overall score with 1840 points in our CPU benchmark. Our gaming benchmark shows that this CPU is a good processor for gaming, with a score of 3383 points. As for multitasking and heavy workloads, the Phenom II X4 980 scores 1405 points and 1349 points respectively. Indeed, this is an average rating for very heavy workloads.

The Phenom II X4 980 has 4 cores and 4 threads. This chip has no simultaneous multithreading support, as it has the same number of cores as threads. This AMD CPU has a clock speed of 3.7 GHz.

In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 980 has 2 MiB of level 2 cache and 6 MiB of level 3 cache. This is a fast memory located close to the processor, which stores copies of frequently used data from main memory.

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