Intel Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Xeon E5-2650 v2 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2650 v2 performs better than the Phenom II X4 955. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has significantly more cores than the Phenom II X4 955. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 v2 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Phenom II X4 955. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 955. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2650 v2.

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 E5-2650 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.