AMD Ryzen 7 6800H vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 7 6800H vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 6800H 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 7 6800H has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Phenom II X4 945 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 945. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 6800H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 6800H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 7 6800H also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.