Intel Core i5-3380M vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i5-3380M vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Core i5-3380M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3380M 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 i5-3380M that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3380M.

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 Core i5-3380M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.