Intel Core i7-6600U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i7-6600U vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1055T is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6600U that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U.

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 i7-6600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.