Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 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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$ 198.95

$ 79.04

$ 119.91 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

1888 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

3068 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

1525 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

1464 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1774 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

415 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

763rd of 1,089

743rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1055T performs better 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3.

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.