Intel Core i5-8365U vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Core i5-8365U vs Phenom II X4 980 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8365U is faster than the Phenom II X4 980. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i5-8365U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 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.