Intel Core i7-4790K vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i7-4790K vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4790K beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4790K that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4790K has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4790K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1100T.

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 i7-4790K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.