Intel Core i5-3550 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i5-3550 vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Core i5-3550. Despite this, the Core i5-3550 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 i5-3550. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3550. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3550. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-3550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.