Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-6820HQ vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6820HQ beats the Phenom II X6 1090T in overall performance. 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 i7-6820HQ that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HQ 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 i7-6820HQ.

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 i7-6820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.