Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i5-8250U vs Phenom II X4 965 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8250U is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-8250U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 965 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.