Intel Core i5-1035G1 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-1035G1 vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-1035G1 beats the Phenom II X6 1090T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

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 i5-1035G1 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-1035G1 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 i5-1035G1. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-1035G1. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-1035G1 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.