AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 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 965

Price

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$ 79.99

$ 64.02

$ 15.97 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points

29% slightly better overall score

1773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points

29% slightly better gaming score

3249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points

29% slightly better multitasking score

1356 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

1300 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points

146% significantly higher Blender score

16.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

Identical

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089

762nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 1200 performs better than the Phenom II X4 965. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 1200. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 3 1200 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 Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.