Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Xeon E3-1230 vs Phenom II X6 1100T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. 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 1100T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E3-1230. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1100T 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 1100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230.

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.