Comparison of AMD Phenom II X4 970 and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Attribute	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 ×	AMD Phenom II X4 970 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E3	AMD Phenom II
Model	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3	AMD Phenom II X4 970
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.1	3.5
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.5	-
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.5	-
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	DDR2-1066
ECC	+	-
Memory channels	2	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2013	2010
Technology (Nm)	22	-
Socket	LGA 1150	AM3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-rvi amd-v
L3-Cache (MB)	8	6
Architecture	Haswell	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	6,747	4,361
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	786	439
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,679	1,491
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	132	92
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	517	355
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.48	1.06
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5.67	4.18
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,250	1,869
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	10,320	6,545