Intel Xeon E5-2687W vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Xeon E5-2687W vs Phenom II X6 1100T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2687W has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Phenom II X6 1100T has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T.

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 E5-2687W has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.