Intel Core i5-4590T 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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$ 129.95

$ 24.60

$ 105.35 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1695 points

1% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3142 points

26% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1291 points

1418 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1239 points

1363 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.64 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2552 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

891 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2552 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

917 points

153% 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

2.00 GHz

2.26 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

128% significantly lower TDP

80 W

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

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

776th 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 i5-4590T vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-4590T performs better than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4590T. Despite this, the Core i5-4590T has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-4590T CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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 i5-4590T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.