Intel Core i5-4670K vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-4670K vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4670K beats the Phenom II X6 1090T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4670K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4670K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-4670K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-4670K. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-4670K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.