AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel Pentium G2030. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Phenom II - 800/900 Intel Pentium G2000
• Family
  AMD Phenom II Intel Pentium
• Generation
  4 3
• 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 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 2
• CPU Threads
  4 2
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No No
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  No turbo No turbo
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  No turbo -
• Turbo Frequency (2 Cores)
  - No turbo

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
  - 11.0
• Execution units
  - 6
• Generation
  - 7
• GPU Frequency
  - 650 MHz
• GPU name
  no iGPU Intel HD Graphics (Ivy Bridge GT1)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo 1000 MHz
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Release date
  - Q4/2012
• Shader
  - 48
• 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 Pentium G2030 and AMD Phenom II X4 955. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR2-1066 DDR3-1333
• PCIe lanes
  - 16
• PCIe version
  - 2.0

• AES-NI
  No Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Phenom II X4 955 and Intel Pentium G2030 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 55 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Phenom II X4 955 and Intel Pentium G2030, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Deneb (K10) Ivy Bridge S
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE3, SSE4a SSE4.1, SSE4.2
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 3 MB
• Release date
  Q2/2009 Q2/2013
• Socket
  AM3 LGA 1155
• Technology
  45 nm 22 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d