Intel Core i7-7820HQ vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Core i7-7820HQ vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1090T performs better than the Core i7-7820HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7820HQ 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 i7-7820HQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-7820HQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-7820HQ.

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 i7-7820HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.