AMD A8-9600 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 13.10

$ 316.85 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1435 points

2407 points

67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2697 points

4431 points

64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1088 points

1840 points

69% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1044 points

1766 points

69% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

19.59 points

47.62 points

143% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1359 points

3379 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

569 points

1204 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1498 points

3325 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

611 points

1198 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

3.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

23% slightly lower TDP

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

828th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-9600 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 beats the A8-9600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the A8-9600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A A8-9600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1220 v5 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the A8-9600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1220 v5

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 A8-9600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.