Intel Core i5-8350U vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i5-8350U vs Phenom II X4 965 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 965 performs better than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8350U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8350U. 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 i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.