AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs AMD Athlon II X4 640

Phenom II X6 1055T vs Athlon II X4 640 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1055T beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Athlon II X4 640 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X4 640. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 640

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 X6 1055T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.