Intel Xeon E5-430 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1100T

Compare Intel Xeon 4 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 1100T

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 130.04 significantly less expensive

$ 259.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points

2277 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3133 points

3688 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1839 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1887 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1764 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

32.04 points

246% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.26 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

673rd of 1,089

668th of 1,089

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Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

Xeon E5-430 vs Phenom II X6 1100T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-430 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1100T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Phenom II X6 1100T has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Xeon E5-430 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-430. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1100T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-430 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Xeon E5-430 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.