AMD FX-4130 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?

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 52.02
$ 177.93 significantly less expensive
$ 229.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1311 points
1318 points
0.53% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2474 points
2% slightly better gaming score
2412 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

993 points
1009 points
1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

953 points
969 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the FX-4130 and the Xeon W3520? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.35 points
21.91 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1340 points
1924 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

473 points
482 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1060 points
1438 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

415 points
416 points
0.24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
4
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
42% slightly higher clock speed
2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed
2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
4% slightly lower TDP
130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

868th 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-4130 vs Xeon W3520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3520 beats the FX-4130 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-4130 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-4130 that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-4130 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. A FX-4130 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3520 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-4130 has more L2 cache than the Xeon W3520. Despite this, the Xeon W3520 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-4130.

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 FX-4130 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

Comments

No comments yet! Be the first to leave a comment using the form below.

Keep comments on topic and be polite. Comments are subject to moderation before they are published.

Popular CPU Comparisons