AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Ryzen 9 6900HX vs Phenom II X4 945 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 6900HX 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 6900HX 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 9 6900HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 945. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 6900HX has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945. The Ryzen 9 6900HX 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 9 6900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.