Intel Core i7-4900MQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i7-4900MQ vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4900MQ 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4900MQ. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly 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 1100T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-4900MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.