Comparison of AMD Phenom II X6 1090T and Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Attribute	Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 ×	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E5	AMD Phenom II
Model	Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2	AMD Phenom II X6 1090T
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.7	3.2
CPU Threads	8	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.9	3.6
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.9	-
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.6
Encryption
AES-NI	+	-
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR3-1866	DDR2-1066
PCIe lanes	40	-
PCIe version	3.0	-
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	4	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2010
Technology (Nm)	22	-
Socket	LGA 2011	AM3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	10	6
Architecture	Ivy Bridge EP	Thuban
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	130	125
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	9,500	5,710
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	776	462
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3,246	2,003
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	153	103
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	730	586
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)	284	230
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)	1,449	1,288
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.76	1.09
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8.06	5.65
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,640	1,883
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	13,946	9,245