Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1055T beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T.

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 Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.