AMD Athlon II X4 635 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Athlon II X4 635 vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Athlon II X4 635 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 635 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 635. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache

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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 635 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.