AMD Phenom II X4 955 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 59.01

$ 24.60

$ 34.41 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1654 points

1676 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3032 points

22% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1265 points

1418 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1214 points

1363 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.93 points

21.48 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

781st of 1,089

780th 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 955 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-520 is faster than the Phenom II X4 955. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 955 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 955 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X4 955

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 955 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.