Intel Xeon W3520 vs AMD FX-770K

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

2% slightly better overall score

1287 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2412 points

2439 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1009 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

971 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

969 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

931 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

21.91 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

18.04 points

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

3.5 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.93 GHz

3.9 GHz

33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

65 W

100% significantly lower TDP

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

874th of 1,089

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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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W3520 vs FX-770K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon W3520 performs better than the FX-770K. Despite this, the FX-770K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon W3520 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the FX-770K that has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-770K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3520. Also, the FX-770K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The FX-770K outputs less heat than Xeon W3520 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-770K has more L2 cache than the Xeon W3520

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.