AMD Athlon II X4 651 vs Intel Xeon E5-450

Athlon II X4 651 vs Xeon E5-450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-450 beats the Athlon II X4 651 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon II X4 651 in all gaming tests too.

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 Xeon E5-450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon II X4 651. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-450 has more L2 cache than the Athlon II X4 651

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. For instance, the Athlon II X4 651 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.