Intel Xeon W3580 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Xeon W3580 vs Phenom II X4 955 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 955 beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon W3580 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3580. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.