Intel Core i7-2860QM vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Core i7-2860QM vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2860QM beats the Phenom II X6 1055T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1055T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-2860QM that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-2860QM has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1055T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2860QM.

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 i7-2860QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.