Intel Core i7-4870HQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-4870HQ vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4870HQ is faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T 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 i7-4870HQ that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4870HQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4870HQ.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-4870HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.