AMD Phenom II X6 1100T vs Intel Core i7-4700MQ

Phenom II X6 1100T vs Core i7-4700MQ comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1100T performs better than the Core i7-4700MQ. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ 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 i7-4700MQ has 4 cores. Despite this, the Core i7-4700MQ has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-4700MQ. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-4700MQ. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.