Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Compare Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD 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

2007 points

9% slightly better overall score

1840 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3383 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

1405 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

1349 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

122% significantly higher Blender score

22.79 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1124 points

174% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

410 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.7 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

752nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs Phenom II X4 980 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 beats the Phenom II X4 980 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 980 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.