Intel Xeon W3520 vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Price

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$ 229.95

$ 529.04 significantly less expensive

$ 758.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1318 points

17900 points

1258% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2412 points

16115 points

568% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1009 points

18547 points

1738% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

969 points

18824 points

1842% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.91 points

555.81 points

2436% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1438 points

22613 points

1472% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

416 points

3204 points

670% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

499% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.7 GHz

39% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz

5.7 GHz

94% significantly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB

192 GiB

700% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

40 MiB

3900% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

36 MiB

350% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

865th of 1,089

4th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR5-6400

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W3520 vs Core Ultra 9 285K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 9 285K performs better than the Xeon W3520. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3520 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Xeon W3520 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Xeon W3520. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon W3520. Also, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a significantly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 9 285K has more L2 cache than the Xeon W3520. The Core Ultra 9 285K 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. For instance, the Xeon W3520 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.