Intel Core i5-5257U vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i5-5257U vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-5257U beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 945 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i5-5257U 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 i5-5257U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-5257U. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more 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 i5-5257U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.