Intel Core i3-6100 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Core i3-6100 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 955 is faster than the Core i3-6100. Despite this, the Core i3-6100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-6100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Core i3-6100 and Phenom II X4 955 are identical in this regard. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 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 Core i3-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.