AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 7 2700 and Phenom II X6 1090T are identical in this regard. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 2700 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1090T. The Ryzen 7 2700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.