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

Core i5-3470S vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1055T performs better than the Core i5-3470S. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3470S. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3470S. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3470S. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3470S has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T.

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 i5-3470S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.