AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 955

Price

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$ 79.04

$ 59.01

$ 20.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1888 points

14% slightly better overall score

1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3068 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1525 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1464 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1214 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.83 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

743rd of 1,089

781st of 1,089

Phenom II X6 1055T vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1055T is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 955 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 955 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 955. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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