Intel Core i5-4460 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 64.04
$ 24.60
$ 39.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2038 points
21% slightly better overall score
1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3756 points
51% significantly better gaming score
2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1556 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1494 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.05 points
91% significantly higher Blender score
21.48 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2935 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1691 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1032 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
385 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2954 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1430 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1068 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.20 GHz
41% slightly higher clock speed
2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed
2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W
80 W
5% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
3
49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB
144 GiB
350% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

709th of 1,089
780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i5
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May
2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
Yes

Core i5-4460 vs Xeon E5-520 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4460 is faster than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-4460 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i5-4460 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-520 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 Core i5-4460 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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