Intel Xeon X5450 vs AMD Phenom II X4 945

Xeon X5450 vs Phenom II X4 945 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5450 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 945. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon X5450 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 945

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. For instance, the Xeon X5450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.