Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Xeon E3-1230 vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Xeon E3-1230 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 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 E3-1230. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T 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 1090T. In terms of clock speed, the Xeon E3-1230 and Phenom II X6 1090T are identical in this regard.

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