AMD Phenom II X6 1045T vs Intel Xeon X5687

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5687

Price

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$ 118.01

$ 71.94 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1887 points

1892 points

0.26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3022 points

3477 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1539 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1476 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.64 points

42.49 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.7 GHz

3.59 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

744th of 1,089

740th of 1,089

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The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Phenom II X6 1045T vs Xeon X5687 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5687 beats the Phenom II X6 1045T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores than the Xeon X5687. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon X5687. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5687. Our comparison shows that the Xeon X5687 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5687. Despite this, the Xeon X5687 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T.

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 1045T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.