Intel Core i5-1035G1 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i5-1035G1 vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1035G1 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-1035G1 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i5-1035G1 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1035G1. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-1035G1. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-1035G1 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.