Intel Core i7-10610U vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-10610U vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10610U is faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-10610U that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10610U. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-10610U. Despite this, the Core i7-10610U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T.

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 i7-10610U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.