AMD Ryzen 5 3500U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Ryzen 5 3500U vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500U 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 Ryzen 5 3500U has 4 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500U 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 Ryzen 5 3500U. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3500U. The Phenom II X6 1100T 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.