AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Xeon W3520

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 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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$ 390.00

$ 229.95

$ 160.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

1318 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

2412 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

1009 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

969 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

21.91 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

1924 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

482 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

1438 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

416 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

865th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-4100 vs Xeon W3520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3520 is faster than the FX-4100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-4100 has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3520. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-4100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon W3520. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.