Comparison of AMD FX-8150 and Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3

Attribute	Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3 ×	AMD FX-8150 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E3	AMD FX
Model	Intel Xeon E3-1270 v3	AMD FX-8150
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	8
Frequency (GHz)	3.5	3.6
CPU Threads	8	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.9	4.2
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.9	-
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	-	4.2
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	125
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	10,206	7,720
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	897	512
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	3,416	2,431
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	153	-
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	742	-
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.75	1.14
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	7.99	5.91
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,759	2,056
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	14,480	10,660