Intel Core i5-2500K vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-2500K vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T is faster than the Core i5-2500K. Despite this, the Core i5-2500K 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 i5-2500K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2500K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-2500K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i5-2500K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.