Intel Xeon E3-1225 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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$ 349.95

$ 59.01

$ 290.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1912 points

15% slightly better overall score

1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3480 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1470 points

16% slightly better multitasking score

1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1411 points

16% slightly better heavy workload score

1214 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.19 points

33% slightly 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

735th 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 E3-1225 vs Phenom II X4 955 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1225 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1225.

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 Xeon E3-1225 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.