Intel Core i3-6157U vs AMD Phenom II X4 B50

Core i3-6157U vs Phenom II X4 B50 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 B50 is faster than the Core i3-6157U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6157U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X4 B50 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6157U. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 B50 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6157U. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-6157U.

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 i3-6157U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.