Intel Core i5-3450 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i5-3450 vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1065T performs better than the Core i5-3450. Despite this, the Core i5-3450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-3450 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3450. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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 i5-3450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.