Intel Core i7-8550U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i7-8550U vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-8550U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8550U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8550U. Despite this, the Core i7-8550U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-8550U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.