AMD A8-6600K vs Intel Xeon W3520

Compare AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 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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$ 118.02

$ 111.93 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1366 points

3% slightly better overall score

1318 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2599 points

7% slightly better gaming score

2412 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1031 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1009 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

989 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

969 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.74 points

21.91 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1128 points

1924 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

468 points

482 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1081 points

1438 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

453 points

8% 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

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

43% significantly higher turbo speed

2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

24.26 MiB

2326% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

848th of 1,089

865th of 1,089

Family

The product line

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

A8-6600K vs Xeon W3520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the A8-6600K is faster than the Xeon W3520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the A8-6600K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the A8-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. In terms of cache, the A8-6600K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon W3520

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the A8-6600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.