AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 142.05 significantly less expensive

$ 190.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1445 points

8046 points

456% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2654 points

10893 points

310% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1105 points

7125 points

544% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1061 points

6898 points

550% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.89 points

199.23 points

901% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1342 points

11709 points

772% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

2649 points

565% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1037 points

12203 points

1076% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

342 points

2751 points

704% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.80 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

6 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

32 MiB

433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

822nd of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Phenom II X4 945 vs Ryzen 5 7600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 5 7600 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.