Intel Core i7-3630QM vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.00
$ 30.99 slightly less expensive
$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1913 points
2277 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2976 points
3688 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1587 points
1839 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1523 points
1764 points
15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.41 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
32.04 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
33% slightly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.26 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

734th of 1,089
668th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-3630QM vs Phenom II X6 1100T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Core i7-3630QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3630QM in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-3630QM that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-3630QM has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-3630QM.

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 i7-3630QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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