AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500U 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Phenom II X6 1090T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.