Intel Core i5-3470 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i5-3470 vs Phenom II X6 1100T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1100T performs better than the Core i5-3470. Despite this, the Core i5-3470 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3470. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3470. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3470.

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.