Intel Core i7-4710HQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-4710HQ vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T is faster than the Core i7-4710HQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4710HQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4710HQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4710HQ 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 i7-4710HQ.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-4710HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.