Intel Core i7-8665U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-8665U vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-8665U beats the Phenom II X6 1090T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-8665U. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.