Intel Core i5-10210U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-10210U vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1090T performs better than the Core i5-10210U. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T 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 1090T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.