Intel Core i5-10300H vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i5-10300H vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10300H 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-10300H has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10300H. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 945.

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 i5-10300H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.