AMD FX-8370 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

FX-8370 vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8370 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

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 FX-8370 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8370 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8370 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1100T. The FX-8370 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 FX-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.