Intel Xeon E5-1603 vs AMD Phenom II X4 960T

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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AMD Phenom II X4 960T

Price

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$ 752.00

$ 52.02

$ 699.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1564 points

4% slightly better overall score

1496 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2883 points

2% slightly better gaming score

2813 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1194 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1133 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1145 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1088 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

354 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

793rd of 1,089

809th of 1,089

Xeon E5-1603 vs Phenom II X4 960T comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1603 beats the Phenom II X4 960T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 960T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads.

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