AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 5 4600G vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 4600G 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 core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Phenom II X4 945 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 4600G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 5 4600G also has slightly 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 4600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.