AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs Intel Xeon E5-649

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-649

Price

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$ 64.02

$ 65.93 significantly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1773 points

1937 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3249 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3123 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1356 points

1567 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1300 points

1504 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.61 points

55.00 points

231% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

762nd of 1,089

730th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

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 965 vs Xeon E5-649 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-649 beats the Phenom II X4 965 in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Phenom II X4 965 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X4 965. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-649. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-649. Despite this, the Xeon E5-649 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 965.

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