Intel Core i7-960 vs Intel Xeon W3520

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 W3520

Price

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$ 150.00

$ 79.95 significantly less expensive

$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1995 points

51% significantly better overall score

1318 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

33% slightly better gaming score

2412 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

61% significantly better multitasking score

1009 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

969 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

21.91 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1700 points

1924 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

503 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

482 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1438 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

416 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

3.2 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

18% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

Identical

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

Identical

24 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

719th of 1,089

865th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

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 i7-960 vs Xeon W3520 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-960 performs better than the Xeon W3520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i7-960 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3520. Also, the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.