AMD Ryzen 5 3550H vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 5 3550H vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3550H beats the Phenom II X4 945 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 945 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a much higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3550H. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Phenom II X4 945 also has significantly more 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3550H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.