Intel Core i5-1035G1 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i5-1035G1 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1035G1 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-1035G1 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1035G1. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-1035G1. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-1035G1 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.