AMD Phenom II X4 980 vs Intel Xeon X5687

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

1840 points

1892 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3383 points

3477 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1405 points

1446 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1349 points

1388 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

22.79 points

42.49 points

86% significantly higher Blender 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

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.59 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

12 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

752nd of 1,089

740th 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 980 vs Xeon X5687 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon X5687 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 Xeon X5687. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5687. Despite this, the Xeon X5687 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 980.

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