Intel Core i7-6560U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-6560U vs Phenom II X6 1065T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1065T is faster than the Core i7-6560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6560U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6560U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6560U. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1065T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6560U.

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. Indeed, the Core i7-6560U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.