Intel Core i5-8265U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i5-8265U vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8265U is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8265U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8265U. Despite this, the Core i5-8265U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8265U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8265U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8265U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.