Intel Xeon W3520 vs Intel Core i7-6498DU

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel 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

1361 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2412 points

2723 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1009 points

1012 points

0.30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

969 points

975 points

0.62% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.91 points

32.79 points

49% significantly higher Blender 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

2% slightly higher clock speed

2.60 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

865th of 1,089

851st 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 Core i7-6498DU benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6498DU is faster than the Xeon W3520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 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 Core i7-6498DU has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3520 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6498DU. The info from our database shows that the Xeon W3520 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6498DU. The Xeon W3520 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.