AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Phenom II X4 945 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 945 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 7 5800 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 7 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.