Intel Core i5-11400 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 79.04
$ 50.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5682 points
200% significantly better overall score
1888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8370 points
172% significantly better gaming score
3068 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4847 points
217% significantly better multitasking score
1525 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4675 points
219% significantly better heavy workload score
1464 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

144.07 points
530% significantly higher Blender score
22.83 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7150 points
303% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1774 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1888 points
354% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

276th of 1,089
743rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-11400 vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i5-11400 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Core i5-11400 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 i5-11400 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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