Intel Core i7-6820HQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Core i7-6820HQ vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6820HQ is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6820HQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-6820HQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6820HQ.

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