Intel Core i5-4460S vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i5-4460S vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1065T beats the Core i5-4460S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4460S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4460S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4460S. Both the Core i5-4460S and Phenom II X6 1065T have the same clock speed.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-4460S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.