Intel Core i5-10310U vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i5-10310U vs Phenom II X4 965 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10310U is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-10310U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10310U.

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 Core i5-10310U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.