AMD Phenom II X4 B50 vs AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+

Phenom II X4 B50 vs Athlon 64 X2 4000+ benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 B50 beats the Athlon 64 X2 4000+ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon 64 X2 4000+ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 64 X2 4000+ has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon 64 X2 4000+. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon 64 X2 4000+. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon 64 X2 4000+

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Phenom II X4 B50 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.