AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Phenom II X4 945 vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores than the Phenom II X4 945. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Phenom II X4 945 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.