Intel Core i7-4700MQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-4700MQ vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1090T performs better than the Core i7-4700MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4700MQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4700MQ that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4700MQ. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4700MQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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