Intel Pentium Silver N6000 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Pentium Silver N6000 vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 945 is faster than the Pentium Silver N6000. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium Silver N6000 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium Silver N6000.

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 Pentium Silver N6000 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.