Intel Pentium G4520 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Pentium G4520 vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 945 beats the Pentium G4520 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4520 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 Pentium G4520. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4520. It also has more threads than the Pentium G4520. With our hardware info, we find that the Pentium G4520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache than the Pentium G4520. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Pentium G4520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.