Intel Core i7-4700HQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i7-4700HQ vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4700HQ is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores than the Core i7-4700HQ. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-4700HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700HQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4700HQ.

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 i7-4700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.