Intel N97 vs Intel Xeon X3450

Compare Intel 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

1707 points

1719 points

0.70% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3251 points

17% slightly better gaming score

2768 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1290 points

1407 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1238 points

1350 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

33.82 points

39.82 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

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 GHz

2.66 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

773rd of 1,089

770th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

N97 vs Xeon X3450 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon X3450 performs better than the N97. Despite this, the N97 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon X3450 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon X3450 has a slightly higher clock speed than the N97. The info from our database shows that the Xeon X3450 has more L2 cache than the N97

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the N97 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.