Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

Xeon E3-1230 vs Phenom II X6 1065T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1065T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1065T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E3-1230. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.