Intel Xeon E5-440 vs AMD FX-870K

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 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

1441 points
0.77% slightly better overall score
1430 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2641 points
2728 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1102 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
1078 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1058 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
1035 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.83 GHz
3.6 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

824th of 1,089
830th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 February
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Xeon E5-440 vs FX-870K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-440 performs better than the FX-870K. Despite this, the FX-870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-870K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-440. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon E5-440 has significantly more L2 cache than the FX-870K

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 Xeon E5-440 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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