Intel Core i7-4702MQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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

$ 289.95
$ 259.99
$ 29.96 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2075 points
2277 points
9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3306 points
3688 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1711 points
1839 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1645 points
1764 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.49 points
38% 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

2.20 GHz
3.26 GHz
48% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
3 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

707th of 1,089
668th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May
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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 i7-4702MQ vs Phenom II X6 1100T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Core i7-4702MQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4702MQ in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4702MQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4702MQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4702MQ. 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 i7-4702MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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