AMD Athlon X4 760K vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Athlon X4 760K vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 945 is faster than the Athlon X4 760K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 760K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 760K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has significantly 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 Athlon X4 760K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.