AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel Core i5-4690K. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• CPU group
  AMD Phenom II - 800/900 Intel Core i 4000
• Family
  AMD Phenom II Intel Core i5
• Generation
  4 4
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.2 GHz 3.5 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo 3.9 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  No turbo 3.7 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• DirectX Version
  - 11.1
• Execution units
  - 20
• Generation
  - 7.5
• GPU Frequency
  - 350 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics 4600
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1200 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q2/2013
• Shader
  - 160
• Technology
  - 22 nm

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No No
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No No
• JPEG
  No Decode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No No
• VP9
  No No

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i5-4690K and AMD Phenom II X4 955. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No No
• Max. Memory
  - 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR2-1066 DDR3-1600
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Phenom II X4 955 and Intel Core i5-4690K Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  125 W 88 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Phenom II X4 955 and Intel Core i5-4690K, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Deneb (K10) Devils Canyon S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 6 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2009 Q2/2014
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1150
• Technology
  45 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d