Comparison of AMD FX-6100 and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Attribute	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 ×	AMD FX-6100 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E3	AMD FX
Model	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3	AMD FX-6100
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	6
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	3.3
CPU Threads	4	6
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.5	3.9
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.5	-
Turbo (6 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.9
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	DDR3-1600	DDR3-1866
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2011
Technology (Nm)	22	32
Socket	LGA 1150	AM3+
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	8	8
Architecture	Haswell	Zambezi
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	80	95
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	6,747	5,418
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	786	471
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,679	1,713
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	132	73
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	517	345
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.48	0.95
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5.67	4.07
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,250	1,858
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	10,320	7,737