Intel Xeon E5-620 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1884 points

1887 points

0.16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2639 points

3022 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1648 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1539 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1596 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1476 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points

27.64 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz

2.7 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

3 MiB

1100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

0.01 MiB

6 MiB

51100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

761st of 1,114

759th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-620 vs Phenom II X6 1045T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1045T is faster than the Xeon E5-620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon E5-620 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1045T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1045T has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Phenom II X6 1045T also has significantly more L3 cache.

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