Intel Core i5-10210U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i5-10210U vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10210U beats the Phenom II X6 1055T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-10210U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10210U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 Core i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.