AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores than the Phenom II X4 955. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Phenom II X4 955. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 955. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 955. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.