Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Compare Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Price

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$ 355.55

$ 79.04

$ 276.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2140 points

13% slightly better overall score

1888 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points

3068 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

1525 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points

23% slightly better heavy workload score

1464 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

22.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2643 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1774 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.8 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,089

743rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2420 vs Phenom II X6 1055T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1055T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1055T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-2420 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420.

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 E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.