AMD Athlon X4 760K vs Intel Xeon L5520

Athlon X4 760K vs Xeon L5520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon L5520 beats the Athlon X4 760K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 760K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon L5520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 760K has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 760K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 760K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon L5520. The info from our database shows that the Athlon X4 760K has more L2 cache than the Xeon L5520

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 Athlon X4 760K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.