Intel Core i5-6500TE vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i5-6500TE vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6500TE is faster than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1065T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6500TE has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6500TE. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1065T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500TE. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1065T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6500TE. 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 i5-6500TE has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.