Intel Core i7-2820QM vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-2820QM vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T is faster than the Core i7-2820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2820QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-2820QM has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-2820QM has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2820QM.

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 Core i7-2820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.