AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1500X 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 1500X 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.