Intel Core i7-8665U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i7-8665U vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1100T beats the Core i7-8665U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-8665U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.