AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1445 points

7135 points

393% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2654 points

9019 points

239% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1105 points

6520 points

490% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1061 points

6356 points

499% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.89 points

172.91 points

769% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1037 points

9559 points

821% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

342 points

1990 points

481% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.30 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

16 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

838th of 1,114

195th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Phenom II X4 945 vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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 9 PRO 6950H has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H 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.