AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Phenom II X6 1055T vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1055T performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T 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. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 Phenom II X4 980. 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.