AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Phenom II X4 945 vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T 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 core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T 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. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.