Intel Core i5-10310U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i5-10310U vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1055T is faster than the Core i5-10310U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10310U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-10310U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U 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 i5-10310U.

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