Intel Xeon E5-440 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Xeon E5-440 vs Athlon X4 870K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-440 beats the Athlon X4 870K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more cores than the Athlon X4 870K. Indeed, the Xeon E5-440 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon X4 870K. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-440. A Xeon E5-440 CPU outputs less heat than a Athlon X4 870K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Athlon X4 870K

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Xeon E5-440 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.