Intel Core i7-10870H vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-10870H vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10870H is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10870H has significantly more cores than the Phenom II X4 945. Indeed, the Core i7-10870H has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Phenom II X4 945. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i7-10870H 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 i7-10870H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.