Intel Core i7-8565U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i7-8565U vs Phenom II X6 1045T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8565U performs better than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8565U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8565U. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1045T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8565U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8565U. Despite this, the Core i7-8565U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8565U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.