AMD Phenom II X4 965 vs Intel Xeon X3450

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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Intel Xeon X3450

Price

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$ 64.02

$ 48.66

$ 15.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1773 points

3% slightly better overall score

1719 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3249 points

17% slightly better gaming score

2768 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1356 points

1407 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1300 points

1350 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

16.61 points

39.82 points

139% significantly higher Blender 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

3.4 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

762nd of 1,089

770th 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 965 vs Xeon X3450 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 965 is faster than the Xeon X3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X3450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon X3450 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X3450. The info from our database shows that the Xeon X3450 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 965

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 Phenom II X4 965 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.