AMD Phenom II X6 1100T vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Phenom II X6 1100T vs Xeon E5-620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 Xeon E5-620 has 4 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-620. The Phenom II X6 1100T also has significantly more 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.