Intel Core i7-4900MQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-4900MQ vs Phenom II X6 1065T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-4900MQ is faster than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1065T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4900MQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1065T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1065T has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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 i7-4900MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.