AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Athlon II X4 640 vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1100T performs better than the Athlon II X4 640. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 640 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Athlon II X4 640 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon II X4 640. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 640. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon II X4 640

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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.