Intel Core i7-11700K vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i7-11700K vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K is faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has slightly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1055T. The Core i7-11700K also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.