Intel Xeon W3520 vs AMD Athlon X4 750K

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD 2 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

1318 points

1% slightly better overall score

1297 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2412 points

2477 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1009 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

969 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

940 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.91 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

19.51 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1364 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

482 points

498 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1438 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1029 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

416 points

443 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.4 GHz

27% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

4 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

865th of 1,089

871st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 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 W3520 vs Athlon X4 750K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3520 beats the Athlon X4 750K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon X4 750K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Athlon X4 750K has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 750K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3520. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 750K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon W3520

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