Intel Core i5-3570 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i5-3570 vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1100T beats the Core i5-3570 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3570 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-3570 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3570. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher clock speed than 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 i5-3570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.