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

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Price

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$ 115.00

$ 79.04

$ 35.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

1888 points

0.37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3068 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

1525 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

1464 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

22.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2143 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1774 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

649 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

746th of 1,089

743rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 vs Phenom II X6 1055T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1055T beats the Xeon E3-1220 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 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 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1055T.

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