Intel Core i5-4590 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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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 100.73

$ 24.60

$ 76.13 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2241 points

33% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4060 points

63% significantly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1725 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1656 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.58 points

107% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3116 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1106 points

187% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3165 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

46% significantly 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

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

32 GiB

144 GiB

350% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

674th 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

Yes

Core i5-4590 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4590 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-4590 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i5-4590 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i5-4590 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 Core i5-4590 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.