Intel Xeon X5570 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Xeon X5570 vs Phenom II X6 1090T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X6 1090T is faster than the Xeon X5570. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5570 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Xeon X5570 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon X5570. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5570. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has more L2 cache than the Xeon X5570. Despite this, the Xeon X5570 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T.

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. For instance, the Xeon X5570 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.