Intel Xeon X5650 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Compare Intel Xeon 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Price

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$ 46.96

$ 101.08 significantly less expensive

$ 148.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2207 points

2261 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3219 points

3641 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1889 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1825 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1759 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.76 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

33.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.2 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

682nd of 1,089

671st of 1,089

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 X5650 vs Phenom II X6 1090T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X6 1090T performs better than the Xeon X5650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon X5650 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X6 1090T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5650. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly 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. Indeed, the Xeon X5650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.