Intel Core i5-4210M vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 2 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 88.04
$ 48.02
$ 40.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1250 points
1445 points
15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2527 points
2654 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

920 points
1105 points
20% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

882 points
1061 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.96 points
10% slightly higher Blender score
19.89 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1750 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1342 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

886 points
122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
398 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1765 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1037 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

907 points
165% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
342 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz
3 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

883rd of 1,089
822nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-4210M vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the Core i5-4210M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-4210M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-4210M has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4210M.

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 i5-4210M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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