AMD A8-5600K vs Intel Xeon W3520

Compare AMD 2 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 W3520

Price

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$ 69.01

$ 160.94 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

908 points

1318 points

45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

1895 points

2412 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

662 points

1009 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

637 points

969 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.11 points

21.91 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1047 points

1924 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

439 points

482 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1036 points

1438 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

416 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

100 W

30% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

979th of 1,089

865th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-5600K vs Xeon W3520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3520 beats the A8-5600K in overall performance. Despite this, the A8-5600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the A8-5600K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. A A8-5600K CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the A8-5600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.