Intel Core i7-6498DU vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Core i7-6498DU vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 945 performs better than the Core i7-6498DU. Despite this, the Core i7-6498DU 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 i7-6498DU has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6498DU. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-6498DU has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.