Intel Core i5-8365U vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Core i5-8365U vs Phenom II X4 965 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8365U is faster than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-8365U has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 965 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8365U.

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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.