Intel Core i5-4590S vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-4590S vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Core i5-4590S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4590S 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 i5-4590S has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4590S. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590S.

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 i5-4590S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.