Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

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

1840 points

0.05% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3374 points

3383 points

0.27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1406 points

0.07% slightly better multitasking score

1405 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1350 points

0.07% slightly better heavy workload score

1349 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.86 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

22.79 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

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Number of logical processing units

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

753rd of 1,089

752nd of 1,089

Xeon E5-1603 v3 vs Phenom II X4 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 980 is faster than the Xeon E5-1603 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1603 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.

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