Comparison of AMD Phenom II X4 975 and Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Attribute	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5 ×	AMD Phenom II X4 975 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E3	AMD Phenom II
Model	Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5	AMD Phenom II X4 975
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	3	3.6
CPU Threads	4	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	-	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.5	-
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	3.3	-
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	2011
Technology (Nm)	14	-
Socket	LGA 1151	AM3
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-rvi amd-v
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	7,613	4,631
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	850	478
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	2,791	1,587
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	147	94
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	551	362
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.82	1.09
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	6.01	4.23
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	3,731	1,876
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	11,161	6,704