Athlon II P320 vs Xeon E5450
Aggregate performance score
Xeon E5450 outperforms Athlon II P320 by a whopping 274% based on our aggregate benchmark results.
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Primary details
Comparing processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.
| Place in the ranking | 2199 | 3075 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Market segment | Server | Laptop |
| Series | no data | AMD Athlon II |
| Power efficiency | 1.93 | 1.65 |
| Designer | Intel | AMD |
| Architecture codename | no data | Champlain (2010−2011) |
| Release date | 1 October 2007 (17 years ago) | 12 May 2010 (14 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
Xeon E5450 and Athlon II P320 basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.
| Physical cores | no data | 2 (Dual-core) |
| Threads | no data | 2 |
| Base clock speed | 3 GHz | no data |
| Boost clock speed | no data | 2.1 GHz |
| Bus rate | no data | 3200 MHz |
| L1 cache | no data | 256 KB |
| L2 cache | no data | 1 MB |
| L3 cache | 12 MB L2 Cache | no data |
| Chip lithography | 45 nm | 45 nm |
| Maximum core temperature | 67 °C | no data |
| 64 bit support | + | + |
| Windows 11 compatibility | - | - |
| VID voltage range | 0.85V-1.35V | no data |
Compatibility
Information on Xeon E5450 and Athlon II P320 compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Socket | LGA771 | S1g4 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | 25 Watt |
Technologies and extensions
Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Xeon E5450 and Athlon II P320. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | no data | SSE-3, SSE4A, 3DNow!, MMX, DEP, SVM |
| Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) | + | no data |
| Turbo Boost Technology | - | no data |
| Hyper-Threading Technology | - | no data |
| Idle States | + | no data |
| Thermal Monitoring | + | - |
| Demand Based Switching | + | no data |
| FSB parity | + | no data |
Security technologies
Xeon E5450 and Athlon II P320 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.
| TXT | - | no data |
| EDB | + | no data |
Virtualization technologies
Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Xeon E5450 and Athlon II P320 are enumerated here.
| VT-x | + | no data |
| EPT | - | no data |
Synthetic benchmark performance
Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance. Other than that, Passmark measures multi-core performance.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Pros & cons summary
| Performance score | 1.61 | 0.43 |
| Recency | 1 October 2007 | 12 May 2010 |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 80 Watt | 25 Watt |
Xeon E5450 has a 274.4% higher aggregate performance score.
Athlon II P320, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, and 220% lower power consumption.
The Intel Xeon E5450 is our recommended choice as it beats the AMD Athlon II P320 in performance tests.
Be aware that Xeon E5450 is a server/workstation processor while Athlon II P320 is a notebook one.
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