AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600 performs better 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 5600 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 5 5600 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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.