Intel Core i5-8350U vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i5-8350U vs Phenom II X4 980 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-8350U performs better than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i5-8350U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-8350U. 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 i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.