AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Price

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$ 79.04

$ 68.37

$ 10.67 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1888 points

5312 points

181% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3068 points

7287 points

137% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1525 points

4672 points

206% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1464 points

4523 points

208% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.83 points

124.29 points

444% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

743rd of 1,089

309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Phenom II X6 1055T vs Ryzen 5 4500 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 4500 beats the Phenom II X6 1055T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 4500 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 4500 also has slightly more 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.