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 Core i7-8665U beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

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.