Intel Xeon W3520 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550

Price

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$ 229.95

$ 48.02

$ 181.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1318 points

1362 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2412 points

2497 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1009 points

1042 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

969 points

1000 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.91 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

19.72 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1924 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1084 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

482 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

362 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1438 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1048 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

416 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

371 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

2.83 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

6 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

865th of 1,089

850th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

2008 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 Core 2 Quad Q9550 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 beats the Xeon W3520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3520. The Core 2 Quad Q9550 outputs less heat than Xeon W3520 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core 2 Quad Q9550 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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.