Intel Xeon W3520 vs AMD Athlon II X4 635

Xeon W3520 vs Athlon II X4 635 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon II X4 635 beats the Xeon W3520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Athlon II X4 635 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon W3520

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 W3520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.