Intel Core i3-10110U vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i3-10110U vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Core i3-10110U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-10110U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Core i3-10110U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-10110U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-10110U. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-10110U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.