AMD Phenom II X4 960T 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

1496 points

1% slightly better overall score

1467 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2813 points

20% slightly better gaming score

2329 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1133 points

1208 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1088 points

1159 points

6% 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

809th 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 960T vs Xeon L5520 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 960T is faster than the Xeon L5520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon L5520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Xeon L5520 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Phenom II X4 960T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon L5520. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 960T 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 960T.

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 960T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.