Intel Core i3-1005G1 vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i3-1005G1 vs Phenom II X4 B50 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-1005G1 is faster than the Phenom II X4 B50. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 B50 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-1005G1 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i3-1005G1. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 B50 has more L2 cache than the Core i3-1005G1. The Phenom II X4 B50 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i3-1005G1 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.