Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1090T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T.

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