Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 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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$ 198.95

$ 24.60

$ 174.35 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

5% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

12% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2743 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

617 points

70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

2.26 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

Identical

80 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

33% slightly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

768 GiB

433% significantly more supported memory

144 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

763rd of 1,089

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs Xeon E5-520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-520 beats the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores than the Xeon E5-520. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Xeon E5-520. It also has more threads than the Xeon E5-520. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.