AMD Phenom II X4 960T vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Phenom II X4 960T vs Phenom II X6 1045T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1045T is faster than the Phenom II X4 960T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 960T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 960T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 960T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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 960T. 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 960T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.