AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 48.02
$ 4.00 slightly less expensive
$ 52.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1445 points
1496 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2654 points
2813 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1105 points
1133 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1061 points
1088 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1037 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

342 points
354 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
Identical
3 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
Identical
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

822nd of 1,089
809th of 1,089

Phenom II X4 945 vs Phenom II X4 960T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 960T is faster 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Phenom II X4 945 and Phenom II X4 960T have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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.

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