Intel Core i5-6402P vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-6402P vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Core i5-6402P in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6402P has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-6402P that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6402P. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6402P. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6402P. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-6402P has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.