Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v2 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T.

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.