AMD Phenom II X4 B95 vs AMD Athlon 64 FX-55

Comparative analysis of AMD Phenom II X4 B95 and AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Phenom II X4 B95

• CPU is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 0 month(s) later
• 3 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 1
• Around 15% higher clock speed: 3 GHz vs 2.6 GHz
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 45 nm vs 90 nm
• 4x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
• 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
• Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 95 Watt vs 104 Watt
• 2.5x better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 1242 vs 505
• 5.9x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 2401 vs 404

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Phenom II X4 B95
CPU 2: AMD Athlon 64 FX-55

PassMark - Single thread mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	1242 505
PassMark - CPU mark	CPU 1 CPU 2	2401 404

Compare specifications (specs)