AMD Phenom II X6 1100T vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 259.99
$ 24.60
$ 235.39 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2277 points
35% slightly better overall score
1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points
48% significantly better gaming score
2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1839 points
29% slightly better multitasking score
1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1764 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score
1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.04 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
21.48 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
49% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.26 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed
2.26 GHz

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

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

668th of 1,089
780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Phenom II X6 1100T vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-520. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-520. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-520. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-520. Despite this, the Xeon E5-520 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T.

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.

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