AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Phenom II X4 945 vs Phenom II X6 1045T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1045T 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Phenom II X4 945 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1045T. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1045T has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 Phenom II X4 945 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.