AMD Phenom II X4 960T vs Intel Xeon E5-450

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

1496 points

1% slightly better overall score

1467 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2813 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1133 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1109 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1088 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1061 points

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points

1100 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

354 points

391 points

10% slightly 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 GHz

3.00 GHz

0.10% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

12 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

809th of 1,089

816th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

Phenom II X4 960T vs Xeon E5-450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Phenom II X4 960T beats the Xeon E5-450 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X4 960T. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 960T

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Phenom II X4 960T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.