AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Athlon X4 860K

Phenom II X4 945 vs Athlon X4 860K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 860K performs better 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 Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 860K. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 860K. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 860K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 860K has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945

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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 945 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.