AMD Ryzen 3 2300U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Ryzen 3 2300U vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 3 2300U is faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 2300U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 2300U. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 2300U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 3 2300U. The Phenom II X6 1055T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 2300U has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.