Intel Xeon E5-430 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Xeon E5-430 vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X6 1090T beats the Xeon E5-430 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-430. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-430. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-430. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-430 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1090T

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 E5-430 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.