Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i5-8250U vs Phenom II X6 1045T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8250U performs better than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8250U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1045T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1045T 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.