Intel Xeon E3-1225 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Xeon E3-1225 vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1225 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1055T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1225 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1225. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1225 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1055T.

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 Xeon E3-1225 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.