AMD Phenom X4 9500 vs Intel Pentium 4 HT 540

Comparative analysis of AMD Phenom X4 9500 and Intel Pentium 4 HT 540 processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Compatibility, Virtualization, Memory. Benchmark processor performance analysis: 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 X4 9500

• CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 5 month(s) later
• 3 more cores, run more applications at once: 4 vs 1
• A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 65 nm vs 90 nm
• 32x 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 34% better performance in Geekbench 4 - Single Core: 203 vs 151
• 3x better performance in Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core: 651 vs 217

Reasons to consider the Intel Pentium 4 HT 540

• Around 45% higher clock speed: 3.2 GHz vs 2.2 GHz
• Around 13% lower typical power consumption: 84 Watt vs 95 Watt

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Phenom X4 9500
CPU 2: Intel Pentium 4 HT 540

Geekbench 4 - Single Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	203 151
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core	CPU 1 CPU 2	651 217

Compare specifications (specs)