AMD Athlon 3000G vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Athlon 3000G vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Athlon 3000G. Despite this, the Athlon 3000G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon 3000G has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon 3000G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. A Athlon 3000G CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Athlon 3000G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.