Intel Xeon E5-450 vs AMD FX-870K

Xeon E5-450 vs FX-870K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-450 is faster than the FX-870K. Despite this, the FX-870K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-870K 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 E5-450. In terms of cache, the Xeon E5-450 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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 E5-450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.