Intel Core i5-8350U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i5-8350U vs Phenom II X6 1045T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-8350U beats the Phenom II X6 1045T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-8350U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1045T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8350U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly 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.