Intel Core i7-4900MQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-4900MQ vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4900MQ performs better 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T 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 1090T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4900MQ. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4900MQ has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T.

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