Intel Core i7-860 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Core 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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$ 54.25

$ 24.60

$ 29.65 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1632 points

1676 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2607 points

4% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1342 points

1418 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1289 points

1363 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.74 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

1691 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

441 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1475 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

451 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

36% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% 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

16 GiB

144 GiB

800% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

783rd of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-860 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-520 beats the Core i7-860 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-860 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-860 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i7-860 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i7-860 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-860 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.