Intel Core i7-950 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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$ 31.00

$ 24.60

$ 6.40 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1367 points

1676 points

22% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2145 points

2485 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1130 points

1418 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1084 points

1363 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

30.71 points

42% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1595 points

1691 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

460 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1494 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

457 points

26% 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

3.06 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.33 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

2.53 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

80 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

144 GiB

499% significantly more supported memory

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

874th of 1,127

805th of 1,127

Family

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Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 May

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 i7-950 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Core i7-950. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-950 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Core i7-950 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Core i7-950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-520 outputs less heat than Core i7-950 thanks to a significantly 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. Indeed, the Core i7-950 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.