Intel Core i5-8365U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i5-8365U vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1065T beats the Core i5-8365U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8365U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1065T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U.

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