Intel Core i5-3340 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i5-3340 vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-3340 performs better 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3340. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3340. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3340. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3340 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3340 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.