AMD Phenom II X6 1090T vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Price

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$ 148.04

$ 51.16 significantly less expensive

$ 199.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2261 points

8204 points

262% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3641 points

9603 points

163% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

7740 points

322% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1759 points

7593 points

331% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.09 points

214.43 points

547% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.80 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

32 MiB

433% significantly more L3 cache

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

671st of 1,089

140th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Phenom II X6 1090T vs Ryzen 7 5800XT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800XT is faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T. The Ryzen 7 5800XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Phenom II X6 1090T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.