AMD A6-6310 vs Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3

Compare AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

689 points

3044 points

341% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1300 points

5018 points

285% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

521 points

2460 points

372% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

500 points

2361 points

372% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

6.97 points

76.91 points

1003% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

574 points

3467 points

504% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

224 points

953 points

325% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

600 points

4098 points

583% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

228 points

1291 points

466% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

1.8 GHz

3.7 GHz

105% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.4 GHz

4.1 GHz

70% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

446% significantly lower TDP

82 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

1,034th of 1,089

534th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A6-Series APU for Desktops

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A6-6310 vs Xeon E3-1281 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 beats the A6-6310 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-6310 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the A6-6310. Also, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a significantly higher turbo speed. A A6-6310 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1281 v3 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the A6-6310 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.