Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

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 1100T

Price

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$ 99.00

$ 160.99 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2307 points

1% slightly better overall score

2277 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4249 points

15% slightly better gaming score

3688 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1762 points

1839 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1691 points

1764 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.99 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

32.04 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

1% slightly higher clock speed

3.26 GHz

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

658th of 1,089

668th 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 1100T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E3-1226 v3 that has 4 cores. 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 1100T.

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