Intel Core i7-4910MQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Core i7-4910MQ vs Phenom II X6 1065T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1065T beats the Core i7-4910MQ in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-4910MQ that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-4910MQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1065T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4910MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4910MQ has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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 i7-4910MQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.