AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs Intel Core i7-13700F

Phenom II X4 945 vs Core i7-13700F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-13700F beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. 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 i7-13700F has significantly more cores than the Phenom II X4 945. Indeed, the Core i7-13700F has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Phenom II X4 945. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 945 has a much higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-13700F. In terms of cache, the Core i7-13700F has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The Core i7-13700F 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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 945 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.