Intel Core i5-4300M vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i5-4300M vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4300M is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 945 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-4300M. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-4300M. 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 i5-4300M.

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 i5-4300M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.