Intel Core i5-3470 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Price

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$ 217.39

$ 79.04

$ 138.35 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2020 points

6% slightly better overall score

1888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3714 points

21% slightly better gaming score

3068 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1543 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1525 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1482 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1464 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.09 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

22.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1862 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1774 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

620 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

712th of 1,089

743rd of 1,089

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3470 vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3470 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-3470 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3470 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 i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.