Intel Xeon E5-440 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1441 points
1496 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2641 points
2813 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1102 points
1133 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1058 points
1088 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1022 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
993 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

361 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
354 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.83 GHz
3 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

824th of 1,089
809th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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Xeon E5-440 vs Phenom II X4 960T specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 960T performs better than the Xeon E5-440. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-440 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 Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-440. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 960T

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 E5-440 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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