AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs Intel Core i5-3350P

Compare AMD 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 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

1840 points

1880 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3383 points

3459 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1405 points

1435 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1349 points

1377 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.79 points

27.83 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1228 points

1730 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

583 points

42% 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

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 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

Identical

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

752nd of 1,089

747th of 1,089

Family

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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Phenom II X4 980 vs Core i5-3350P specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-3350P is faster than the Phenom II X4 980. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3350P. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-3350P. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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