Intel Core i5-3470 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i5-3470 vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3470 beats the Phenom II X6 1065T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1065T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3470. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1065T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3470. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3470 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3470 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.