Intel Core i5-8350U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i5-8350U vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1055T is faster than the Core i5-8350U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8350U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8350U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8350U. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8350U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8350U. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.