Comparison of AMD FX-8310 and Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3

Attribute	AMD FX-8310 ×	Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3 ×
General Information
Brand	AMD	Intel
Series	AMD FX	Intel Xeon E3
Model	AMD FX-8310	Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	8	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.4	1.8
CPU Threads	8	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	+
Overclocking	+	-
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	4.3	2.8
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	2.8
Turbo (8 Cores) (GHz)	4.1	-
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	DDR3-1866	DDR3-1600
ECC	+	+
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2014	2013
Technology (Nm)	32	22
Socket	AM3+	LGA 1150
Virtualization	amd-v	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept
L3-Cache (MB)	8	8
Architecture	Vishera	Haswell
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
TDP (PL1) (W)	95	25
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	9,065	7,344
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	98	108
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	665	556
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.14	1.27
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	6.94	5.81
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	2,195	2,461
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11,164	8,629