Intel Xeon E5-620 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Xeon E5-620 vs Phenom II X4 980 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the Phenom II X4 980 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 980 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Phenom II X4 980 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.