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

Core i5-3550S vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1100T beats the Core i5-3550S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3550S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-3550S that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3550S. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550S.

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 i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.