AMD Phenom II X6 1100T vs Intel Xeon X5650

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

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Intel Xeon X5650

Price

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$ 259.99

$ 46.96

$ 213.03 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2277 points

3% slightly better overall score

2207 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3219 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1839 points

1889 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1764 points

1825 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.04 points

44.76 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.26 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

668th of 1,089

682nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 1100T vs Xeon X5650 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5650 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon X5650 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5650. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T.

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 1100T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.