Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel N95

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel 4 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

1617 points

4% slightly better overall score

1553 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2977 points

1% slightly better gaming score

2944 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1234 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1175 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1184 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1127 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz

95% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

785th of 1,089

800th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon W3580 vs N95 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon W3580 beats the N95 in overall performance. Despite this, the N95 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 Xeon W3580 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the N95. The info from our database shows that the N95 has more L2 cache than the Xeon W3580. Despite this, the Xeon W3580 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the N95.

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