AMD A8-6600K vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

A8-6600K vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the A8-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the A8-6600K. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the A8-6600K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.