Intel Core i5-3570K vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Price

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$ 139.00

$ 9.04 slightly less expensive

$ 148.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2217 points

2261 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4077 points

11% slightly better gaming score

3641 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1694 points

1833 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1627 points

1759 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.69 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

33.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

679th of 1,089

671st of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3570K vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T is faster than the Core i5-3570K. Despite this, the Core i5-3570K 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 i5-3570K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3570K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1090T.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3570K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.