Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1055T

Xeon E5-2620 vs Phenom II X6 1055T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2620 beats the Phenom II X6 1055T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1055T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon E5-2620 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X6 1055T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2620.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.