AMD A8-7650K vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

A8-7650K vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the A8-7650K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7650K 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 A8-7650K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A8-7650K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The info from our database shows that the A8-7650K has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-7650K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.