Intel Xeon E5-520 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD 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

1840 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2485 points

3383 points

36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1418 points

0.93% slightly better multitasking score

1405 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1363 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1349 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.48 points

22.79 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1430 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1228 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

362 points

410 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

3.7 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

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

752nd 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 Phenom II X4 980 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Phenom II X4 980 is faster than the Xeon E5-520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 980 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Phenom II X4 980 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-520. Despite this, the Xeon E5-520 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X4 980.

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