AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 5 5600H 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.