Intel Xeon E3-1281 v3 vs AMD Custom 0405

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

3044 points

3095 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5018 points

5138 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2460 points

2486 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2361 points

2385 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

76.91 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

71.27 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

3.7 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

534th of 1,089

525th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 E3-1281 v3 vs Custom 0405 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Custom 0405 performs better than the Xeon E3-1281 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1281 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Custom 0405.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1281 v3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.