AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

1840 points
4404 points
139% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3383 points
6525 points
92% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1405 points
3759 points
167% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1349 points
3630 points
169% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.79 points
86.99 points
281% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

752nd of 1,089
400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 5

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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No

Phenom II X4 980 vs Ryzen 5 7430U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7430U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 7430U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Phenom II X4 980 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 980. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7430U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7430U has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 980. The Ryzen 5 7430U also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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