AMD Phenom II X4 960T vs Intel Xeon X3440

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

1566 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2813 points

10% slightly better gaming score

2537 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1133 points

1279 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1088 points

1227 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

993 points

1233 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

354 points

382 points

7% slightly 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

3 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

2.54 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

809th of 1,089

791st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Phenom II X4 960T vs Xeon X3440 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X3440 performs better than the Phenom II X4 960T. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 960T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon X3440 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X3440. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 960T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X3440. Despite this, the Xeon X3440 has slightly more L3 cache 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.