Intel Core i5-8265U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i5-8265U vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Core i5-8265U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8265U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8265U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. 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 i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.