Intel Xeon E5-620 vs AMD Phenom II X4 965

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1862 points

5% slightly better overall score

1773 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2622 points

3249 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1625 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

1356 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1573 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

1300 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Xeon E5-620 and the Phenom II X4 965? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

16.61 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz

3.4 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB

2 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

0.01 MiB

6 MiB

51100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

771st of 1,124

786th of 1,124

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 E5-620 vs Phenom II X4 965 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-620 performs better than the Phenom II X4 965. Despite this, the Phenom II X4 965 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Xeon E5-620 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. The info from our database shows that the Phenom II X4 965 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Phenom II X4 965 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.