AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Athlon II X4 651 vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Athlon II X4 651 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Athlon II X4 651 and Phenom II X4 945 are identical in this regard. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 651 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 651 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.