Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 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 1090T

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 49.04 significantly less expensive

$ 148.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

2% slightly better overall score

2261 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

16% slightly better gaming score

3641 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1833 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1759 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

38% slightly higher Blender score

33.09 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

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

671st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 beats the Phenom II X6 1090T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1090T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1226 v3. It also has more threads than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1090T.

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 E3-1226 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.