Intel Xeon W3580 vs Intel Pentium 6805

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium 6800 Series 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

1617 points
3% slightly better overall score
1561 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2977 points
3096 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1234 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
1150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1184 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
1094 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.33 GHz
198% significantly higher clock speed
1.11 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
15 W
766% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

24 GiB
64 GiB
166% significantly more supported memory

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
Identical
1 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

785th of 1,089
796th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon
Pentium 6800 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Xeon W3580 vs Pentium 6805 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon W3580 is faster than the Pentium 6805. Despite this, the Pentium 6805 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon W3580 has significantly more cores than the Pentium 6805. Indeed, the Xeon W3580 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Pentium 6805. It also has more threads than the Pentium 6805. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon W3580 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Pentium 6805. Also, the Xeon W3580 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Pentium 6805 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Xeon W3580 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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