What are your thoughts on this?

[Toon]

A person I know thinks that Dual Xeon x5560s are faster than an AMD FX-9590 in every aspect possible, I tried to counter his argument, but he just won't listen and uses google imaged found benchmark scores to "Prove his point", so I wanted whoever reads this's opinion on his claims that it's faster and would knock out an FX-9590, thanks.

[Kevo05s]

3 minutes ago, Toon said:

A person I know thinks that Dual Xeon x5560s are faster than an AMD FX-9590 in every aspect possible, I tried to counter his argument, but he just won't listen and uses google imaged found benchmark scores to "Prove his point", so I wanted whoever reads this's opinion on his claims that it's faster and would knock out an FX-9590, thanks.

well it depends in what kind of work, in gaming you would have the faster chip, in multi-threaded workload, id say he'd win, but you'd have to be more specific...

[The Sloth]

i would choose the amd platform but both of those chips are not worth getting. the amd one is faster and has more expandability.  

[iRileyx]

They probably would be faster, definitely for multi-core workloads.

[Guest]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i would choose the amd platform but both of those chips are not worth getting. the amd one is faster and has more expandability.  

Passmark shows it is better than a 1231v3

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5560+%40+2.80GHz&cpuCount=2

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Passmark shows it is better than a 1231v3

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5560+%40+2.80GHz&cpuCount=2

And it can be overclocked to 4GHz or so....

[Toon]

Yeah, he says everything but gaming the CPU would win, but I personally think that's false. Even with the "Evidence" he gathered up, the AMD CPU is only about 100-200 points behind from the scores shown without it being overclocked much (If any), so I think that overclocking the FX to about half of its potential would pass it fairly easily.

[Kevo05s]

for sure his config was more expensive, and I'd understand he'd be butthurt about it, but the Nehalem EP architecture is getting quite old, older than yours actually, and the performance per core is, in facts, better. I'd like to see his "google image benchmark" because I'm very doubtfull here... My point of view is gaming wise, where, once you have a quad core, it's pretty much just IPC that matters. On multi-threaded workloads, he'd still beat you

[Streetguru]

8 minutes ago, Toon said:

A person I know thinks that Dual Xeon x5560s are faster than an AMD FX-9590 in every aspect possible, I tried to counter his argument, but he just won't listen and uses google imaged found benchmark scores to "Prove his point", so I wanted whoever reads this's opinion on his claims that it's faster and would knock out an FX-9590, thanks.

It has more threads, not sure on the single thread performance of each, probably wouldn't really matter either way

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

And it can be overclocked to 4GHz or so....

i know a guy who has a fx 9590 clocked at 5.5 ghz with a darkrock pro 3. 

[Kevo05s]

2 minutes ago, Toon said:

Yeah, he says everything but gaming the CPU would win, but I personally think that's false. Even with the "Evidence" he gathered up, the AMD CPU is only about 100-200 points behind from the scores shown without it being overclocked much (If any), so I think that overclocking the FX to about half of its potential would pass it fairly easily.

the 9590 is clocked at 5GHz from factory, and there really isn't any headroom left, even under water...

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

i know a guy who has a fx 9590 clocked at 5.5 ghz with a darkrock pro 3. 

He is just lucky.

[The Sloth]

1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

He is just lucky.

not really, the fx cpus are really good overclockers, the IPC just sucks. 

[Toon]

I tried to look for his "Image evidence" on discord as I spoke to him there, but it seems to be gone now for some reason. But he used Cinebench r15 scores to prove his point.

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, nerdslayer1 said:

not really, the fx cpus are really good overclockers, the IPC just sucks. 

They are, but 5GHz is as high as most will go, even 9590s.

[dizmo]

I think your time could be better spent on other things. Internet arguments are stupid.