AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Phenom II X6 1055T vs Phenom II X4 965 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1055T beats the Phenom II X4 965 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 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 965 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 965. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 965. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.