| Attribute |
Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 × | 
AMD Phenom II X4 955 × |
| General Information | | |
| Brand | Intel | AMD |
| Series | Intel Xeon E3 | AMD Phenom II |
| Model | Intel Xeon E3-1230 v5 | AMD Phenom II X4 955 |
| CPU Cores and Base Frequency | | |
| CPU Cores | 4 | 4 |
| Frequency (GHz) | 3.4 | 3.2 |
| CPU Threads | 8 | 4 |
| Core architecture | normal | normal |
| Hyperthreading | + | - |
| Overclocking | - | + |
| Turbo (1 Core) (GHz) | 3.8 | - |
| Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz) | 3.6 | - |
| Encryption | | |
| AES-NI | + | - |
| Hardware codec support | | |
| JPEG | No | No |
| h264 | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit) | No | No |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit) | No | No |
| VP8 | No | No |
| AV1 | No | No |
| VC-1 | No | No |
| VP9 | No | No |
| AVC | No | No |
| Memory And PCIe | | |
| Memory type | DDR4-2133 | DDR2-1066 |
| PCIe lanes | 16 | - |
| PCIe version | 3.0 | - |
| ECC | + | - |
| Memory channels | 2 | 2 |
| Technical details | | |
| Release date (year) | 2015 | 2009 |
| Technology (Nm) | 14 | - |
| Socket | LGA 1151 | AM3 |
| Virtualization | | |
| L3-Cache (MB) | 8 | 6 |
| Architecture | Skylake | Deneb |
| Instruction set (ISA) | x86-64 (64 bit) | x86-64 (64 bit) |
| Thermal Management | | |
| TDP (PL1) (W) | 80 | 125 |
| Benchmarks | | |
| Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark | 10,735 | 3,987 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 931 | 422 |
| Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 3,761 | 1,401 |
| Cinebench R15 (Single-Core) | 163 | 84 |
| Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core) | 799 | 324 |
| Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core) | - | 651 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core) | 1.98 | 0.97 |
| Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 8.93 | 3.82 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core) | 4,309 | 1,709 |
| Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core) | 15,325 | 5,984 |
| Cinebench R23 (Single-Core) | 975 | 488 |
| Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core) | 4,832 | 1,967 |