Intel Core i7-3820QM vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-3820QM vs Phenom II X6 1065T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1065T is faster than the Core i7-3820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-3820QM has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-3820QM has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-3820QM has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.