Intel Pentium G4600 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Pentium G4600 vs Xeon E5-520 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-520 beats the Pentium G4600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Pentium G4600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores than the Pentium G4600. Indeed, the Xeon E5-520 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium G4600. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Pentium G4600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. A Pentium G4600 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-520 CPU because of its significantly 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 Xeon E5-520 has more L2 cache than the Pentium G4600. The Xeon E5-520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Pentium G4600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.