AMD A10-6700 vs Intel Xeon X5450

Compare AMD A10-Series APU for Desktops 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5450

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 59.01

$ 39.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1454 points

1492 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2783 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2733 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1092 points

1143 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1046 points

1098 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1126 points

1348 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

484 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

426 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1100 points

1123 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

389 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

12 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

821st of 1,089

810th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A10-Series APU for Desktops

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 June

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

A10-6700 vs Xeon X5450 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X5450 performs better than the A10-6700. Despite this, the A10-6700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the A10-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5450. A A10-6700 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon X5450 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon X5450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A10-6700

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the A10-6700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.