Intel Xeon E5-450 vs AMD Athlon X4 870K

Xeon E5-450 vs Athlon X4 870K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-450 beats the Athlon X4 870K in overall performance. Despite this, the Athlon X4 870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon X4 870K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon X4 870K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-450. A Xeon E5-450 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. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-450 has more L2 cache than 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 E5-450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.