AMD Athlon X4 870K vs Intel Xeon L5520

Athlon X4 870K vs Xeon L5520 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon L5520 performs better than the Athlon X4 870K. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon L5520 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 870K. Indeed, the Xeon L5520 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 870K. It also has more threads than the Athlon X4 870K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon L5520. Also, the Athlon X4 870K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon L5520 outputs less heat than Athlon X4 870K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 870K 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. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.