Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads. According to our data, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 and Phenom II X4 955 have the same clock speed.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.