Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i5-8250U vs Phenom II X6 1065T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8250U beats the Phenom II X6 1065T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1065T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8250U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1065T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.