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

Core i3-10110U vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-10110U beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

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.