Intel Xeon E5-620 vs Intel Xeon W3550

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1976 points
0.30% slightly better overall score
1970 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2711 points
3191 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1746 points
8% slightly better multitasking score
1606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1694 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
1541 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
24.84 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1482 points
1586 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

366 points
458 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.53 GHz
3.06 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.66 GHz
3.33 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W
62% significantly lower TDP
130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
Identical
3

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

288 GiB
1100% significantly more supported memory
24 GiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.25 MiB
1 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

0.01 MiB
8 MiB
68166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

733rd of 1,102
735th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Xeon
Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
Yes

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