Intel Core i5-6400T vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i5-6400T vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6400T beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 945 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6400T.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-6400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.