Intel Xeon E3-1220 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X4 955

Price

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$ 115.00

$ 59.01

$ 55.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1881 points

13% slightly better overall score

1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3441 points

13% slightly better gaming score

3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1439 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1379 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

1214 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.68 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

18.93 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

746th of 1,089

781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1220 performs better than the Phenom II X4 955. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 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 955 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220.

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 Xeon E3-1220 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.