Intel Xeon E5-520 vs AMD Athlon Gold 3150U

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon 3000 Series 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

1676 points
4% slightly better overall score
1604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2485 points
3118 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1418 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
1201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1363 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
1153 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.48 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
18.14 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1430 points
1676 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

362 points
818 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

2.26 GHz
2.4 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.53 GHz
3.3 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W
15 W
433% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

780th of 1,089
787th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Athlon 3000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Xeon E5-520 vs Athlon Gold 3150U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-520 performs better than the Athlon Gold 3150U. Despite this, the Athlon Gold 3150U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Athlon Gold 3150U that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon Gold 3150U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-520. Also, the Athlon Gold 3150U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon Gold 3150U outputs less heat than Xeon E5-520 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Xeon E5-520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 E5-520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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