Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

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 1100T

Price

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$ 355.55

$ 259.99

$ 95.56 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2140 points

2277 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points

3688 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1839 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1764 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

32.04 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

3.26 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,089

668th 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 1100T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1100T is faster than the Xeon E5-2420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-2420 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a significantly higher clock speed than 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.