AMD A8-6500 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

A8-6500 vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the A8-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-6500 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-6500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the A8-6500 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-6500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.