Intel Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs AMD Custom 0405

Xeon E3-1280 v3 vs Custom 0405 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Custom 0405 beats the Xeon E3-1280 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1280 v3 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Custom 0405.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.