Intel Core i5-10310U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-10310U vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Core i5-10310U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10310U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T 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 1090T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T 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.