AMD Phenom II X4 B50 vs Intel Xeon E5-450

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

1534 points

4% slightly better overall score

1467 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2816 points

3% slightly better gaming score

2728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1171 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1109 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1124 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1061 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

12 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

803rd of 1,089

816th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

Phenom II X4 B50 vs Xeon E5-450 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Phenom II X4 B50 performs better than the Xeon E5-450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-450 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 B50 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-450. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-450 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 B50

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 B50 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.