Intel Core i5-4460 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i5-4460 vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-4460 beats the Phenom II X6 1055T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-4460 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-4460. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.