Intel Core i7-3820QM vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Core i7-3820QM vs Phenom II X6 1045T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-3820QM is faster than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1045T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-3820QM. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-3820QM. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Both the Core i7-3820QM and Phenom II X6 1045T have the same clock speed.

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 i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.