Intel Core i7-920 vs Intel Xeon E5-450

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1474 points

0.48% slightly better overall score

1467 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2489 points

2728 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1179 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

1109 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1132 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

1061 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

31.28 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

19.01 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1071 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

419 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

378 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1431 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1100 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

391 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

2.79 GHz

3.00 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

814th of 1,089

816th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-920 vs Xeon E5-450 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-920 beats the Xeon E5-450 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-450 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-920 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-450 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-450 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-920

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. Indeed, the Core i7-920 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.