Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Compare Intel 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

1839 points

3% slightly better overall score

1773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3374 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3249 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1406 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

1356 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1350 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1300 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.86 points

79% significantly higher Blender score

16.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

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Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

753rd of 1,089

762nd of 1,089

Xeon E5-1603 v3 vs Phenom II X4 965 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1603 v3 performs better than the Phenom II X4 965. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 965 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.

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 E5-1603 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.