Intel Core i5-4570 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-4570 vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Core i5-4570 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4570 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 i5-4570 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4570. According to our data, the Core i5-4570 and Phenom II X6 1090T have the same clock speed.

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 i5-4570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.