Intel Xeon E5-620 vs Intel Xeon W3550

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

1884 points

1970 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2639 points

3191 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1648 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1596 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1541 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.76 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

24.84 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1482 points

1586 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) 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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

Identical

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

761st of 1,114

740th of 1,114

Family

The product line

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-620 vs Xeon W3550 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3550 is faster than the Xeon E5-620. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-620. Also, the Xeon W3550 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-620 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon W3550 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Xeon W3550 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The Xeon W3550 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.