AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 109.99
$ 59.01
$ 50.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3189 points
92% significantly better overall score
1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4881 points
60% significantly better gaming score
3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2673 points
111% significantly better multitasking score
1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2565 points
111% significantly better heavy workload score
1214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points
258% significantly higher Blender score
18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

512th of 1,089
781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 2400G vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2400G is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2400G. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 2400G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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