Intel Xeon W3580 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Xeon W3580 vs Athlon X4 950 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Athlon X4 950 beats the Xeon W3580 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon W3580 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Xeon W3580 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon W3580. Also, the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Athlon X4 950 outputs less heat than Xeon W3580 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Athlon X4 950 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon W3580

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. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.