Intel Core i5-8350U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i5-8350U vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8350U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-8350U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-8350U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 1100T 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.