AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 48.02
Identical
$ 48.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1463 points
1% slightly better overall score
1445 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2727 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2654 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1106 points
0.09% slightly better multitasking score
1105 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1058 points
1061 points
0.28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.73 points
19.89 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points
1342 points
42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

308 points
398 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

948 points
1037 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

313 points
342 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
Identical
3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

819th of 1,089
822nd of 1,089

Athlon II X4 640 vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Athlon II X4 640 and Phenom II X4 945 have the same clock speed. 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 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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