AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Phenom II X4 980 vs Phenom II X6 1045T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1045T beats the Phenom II X4 980 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 980 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 980. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 980. 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 980 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.