Intel Xeon E5-620 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Xeon E5-620 vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-620 is faster than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1090T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-620. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-620. Despite this, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Phenom II X6 1090T 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.