Intel Xeon E5-620 vs AMD Phenom II X4 980

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1884 points
2% slightly better overall score
1840 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2639 points
3383 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1648 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
1405 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1596 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
1349 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
22.79 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1482 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1228 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

366 points
410 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz
3.7 GHz
46% significantly 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

754th of 1,102
762nd of 1,102

Family

The product line

Xeon
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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