AMD Phenom II X6 1055T vs Intel Xeon W3550

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 W3550

Price

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$ 79.04

$ 49.95

$ 29.09 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1888 points

1970 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3068 points

3191 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1525 points

1606 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1464 points

1541 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.83 points

24.84 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3.06 GHz

9% 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

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

743rd of 1,089

726th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

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 1055T vs Xeon W3550 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3550 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon W3550 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Xeon W3550 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1055T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has more L2 cache than the Xeon W3550. Despite this, the Xeon W3550 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Phenom II X6 1055T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.