AMD Phenom II X4 945 vs Intel Xeon L5520

Compare AMD 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

1445 points

1467 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2654 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2329 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1105 points

1208 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1061 points

1159 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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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 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

2.27 GHz

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

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

822nd of 1,089

818th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

Phenom II X4 945 vs Xeon L5520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon L5520 is faster than the Phenom II X4 945. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 945 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon L5520 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 945 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon L5520. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 945 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon L5520. Despite this, the Xeon L5520 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 945.

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. For instance, the Phenom II X4 945 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.