Intel Core i7-8650U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-8650U vs Phenom II X6 1065T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1065T beats the Core i7-8650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8650U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-8650U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U 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 i7-8650U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8650U. Despite this, the Core i7-8650U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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 i7-8650U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.