Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Phenom II X6 1100T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1100T beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.