Comparison of AMD Phenom II X4 980 and Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3

Attribute	Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3 ×	AMD Phenom II X4 980 ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Xeon E3	AMD Phenom II
Model	Intel Xeon E3-1230L v3	AMD Phenom II X4 980
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	4	4
Frequency (GHz)	1.8	3.7
CPU Threads	8	4
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	-
Overclocking	-	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	2.8	-
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	2.8	-
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	2011
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)	25	125
Benchmarks
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark	7,344	4,610
Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)	108	97
Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)	556	375
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Single-Core)	1.27	1.12
Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5.81	4.41
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Single-Core)	2,461	1,976
Geekbench 3, 64bit (Multi-Core)	8,629	6,919