Intel Xeon E5-520 vs Intel N97

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

1707 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2485 points

3251 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1418 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1290 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1363 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1238 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.48 points

33.82 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.26 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

780th of 1,089

773rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-520 vs N97 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the N97 performs better than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-520 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the N97. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the N97 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-520. Despite this, the Xeon E5-520 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the N97.

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