AMD Athlon II X4 640 vs Intel Xeon L5520

Athlon II X4 640 vs Xeon L5520 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon L5520 beats the Athlon II X4 640 in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon II X4 640 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon L5520 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X4 640 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon L5520. In terms of cache, the Athlon II X4 640 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon L5520

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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 640 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.