Intel Core i5-6200U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Last updated: 2024-04-12

CPU comparison with benchmarks


Intel Core i5-6200U		AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
CPU comparison Intel Core i5-6200U or AMD Phenom II X6 1090T - which processor is faster? In this comparison we look at the differences and analyze which of these two CPUs is better. We compare the technical data and benchmark results. The Intel Core i5-6200U has 2 cores with 4 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 2.80 GHz. Up to 32 GB of memory is supported in 2 memory channels. The Intel Core i5-6200U was released in Q3/2015. The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores with 6 threads and clocks with a maximum frequency of 3.60 GHz. The CPU supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T was released in Q2/2010.

Intel Core i5 (331)	Family	AMD Phenom II (52)
Intel Core i 6000U (20)	CPU group	AMD Phenom II - 1000 (7)
6	Generation	6
Skylake U	Architecture	Thuban (K10)
Mobile	Segment	Desktop / Server
Intel Core i5-5200U	Predecessor	--
Intel Core i5-7200U	Successor	--

CPU Cores and Base Frequency The Intel Core i5-6200U has 2 CPU cores and can calculate 4 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Intel Core i5-6200U is 2.30 GHz (2.80 GHz) while the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 CPU cores and 6 threads can calculate simultaneously. The clock frequency of the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T is at 3.20 GHz (3.60 GHz).
Intel Core i5-6200U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
2	Cores	6
4	Threads	6
normal	Core architecture	normal
Yes	Hyperthreading	No
No	Overclocking ?	Yes
2.30 GHz	Frequency	3.20 GHz
2.80 GHz	Turbo Frequency (1 Core)	3.60 GHz
2.70 GHz	Turbo Frequency (All Cores)	3.60 GHz

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.
Intel Core i5-6200U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
--	AI hardware	--
--	AI specifications	--

Internal Graphics The Intel Core i5-6200U or AMD Phenom II X6 1090T has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
Intel HD Graphics 520	GPU	no iGPU
0.30 GHz	GPU frequency	--
1.00 GHz	GPU (Turbo)	--
9	GPU Generation	--
14 nm	Technology
3	Max. displays
24	Compute units	--
192	Shader	--
No	Hardware Raytracing	No
No	Frame Generation	No
32 GB	Max. GPU Memory	--
12	DirectX Version	--

Hardware codec support A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
Intel HD Graphics 520	GPU	no iGPU
Decode / Encode	Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No
Decode	Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No
Decode / Encode	Codec h264	No
Decode	Codec VP9	No
Decode / Encode	Codec VP8	No
No	Codec AV1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec AVC	No
Decode	Codec VC-1	No
Decode / Encode	Codec JPEG	No

Memory & PCIe The Intel Core i5-6200U can use up to 32 GB of memory in 2 memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 34.1 GB/s. The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T supports up to GB of memory in 2 memory channels and achieves a memory bandwidth of up to 21.3 GB/s.
Intel Core i5-6200U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
DDR4-2133	Memory	DDR3-1333, DDR2-1066
32 GB	Max. Memory
2 (Dual Channel)	Memory channels	2 (Dual Channel)
34.1 GB/s	Max. Bandwidth	21.3 GB/s
No	ECC	No
--	L2 Cache	--
3.00 MB	L3 Cache	6.00 MB
3.0	PCIe version	--
12	PCIe lanes	--
11.8 GB/s	PCIe Bandwidth	--
Thermal Management The thermal design power (TDP for short) of the Intel Core i5-6200U is 15 W, while the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T has a TDP of 125 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently.
Intel Core i5-6200U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
15 W	TDP (PL1 / PBP)	125 W
--	TDP (PL2)	--
--	TDP up	--
--	TDP down	--
--	Tjunction max.	--
Technical details The Intel Core i5-6200U is manufactured in 14 nm and has 3.00 MB cache. The AMD Phenom II X6 1090T is manufactured in 45 nm and has a 6.00 MB cache.
Intel Core i5-6200U	Characteristic	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
14 nm	Technology	45 nm
Monolithic	Chip design	Unknown
x86-64 (64 bit)	Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	ISA extensions	SSE3, SSE4a
BGA 1356	Socket	AM3
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d	Virtualization	AMD-V
Yes	AES-NI	No
Windows 10, Linux	Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2015	Release date	Q2/2010
281 $	Release price	--

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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 3 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core i5-6200U (100%)

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (79%)

⌀ Multi core performance in 5 CPU benchmarks

Intel Core i5-6200U (62%)

AMD Phenom II X6 1090T (100%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	688 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	462 (67%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1346 (67%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	2003 (100%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	282 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	230 (82%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	735 (57%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	1288 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	3009 (53%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	5710 (100%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.30 GHz	753 (84%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.20 GHz	895 (100%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	119 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	103 (87%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	290 (49%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	586 (100%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	716 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1706 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.80 GHz	946 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1867 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	0 (0%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.


	Intel Core i5-6200U Intel HD Graphics 520 @ 1.00 GHz	384 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T @ 0.00 GHz	0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	1878.1 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.


	Intel Core i5-6200U 2C 4T @ 2.70 GHz	252 (100%)
	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T 6C 6T @ 3.60 GHz	0 (0%)

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