Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Phenom II X4 980 comparison
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 980 is faster than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Phenom II X4 980 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 980. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3.
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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.
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