Intel Xeon X5450 vs AMD Athlon X4 950

Compare Intel Xeon 4 core CPU vs AMD Athlon X4 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

1492 points

1565 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2733 points

2930 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1143 points

1186 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1098 points

1136 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1123 points

1542 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

389 points

621 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.00 GHz

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

810th of 1,089

792nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon

Athlon X4

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Xeon X5450 vs Athlon X4 950 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Athlon X4 950 performs better than the Xeon X5450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5450 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Athlon X4 950 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5450. The Athlon X4 950 outputs less heat than Xeon X5450 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 Xeon X5450 has more L2 cache than the Athlon X4 950

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 X5450 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.