AMD FX-4100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Compare AMD FX 4-Core Black Edition 2 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2

Price

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$ 390.00

$ 105.77

$ 284.23 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1255 points

4438 points

253% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2361 points

4819 points

104% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

952 points

4302 points

351% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

914 points

4265 points

366% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

18.53 points

100.42 points

442% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1317 points

3964 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

474 points

549 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1001 points

3854 points

285% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

398 points

563 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

400% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

400% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

21% slightly lower TDP

115 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

882nd of 1,089

396th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 4-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-4100 vs Xeon E5-2680 v2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2680 v2 beats the FX-4100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-4100 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2680 v2 has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the FX-4100 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-4100. Our comparison shows that the FX-4100 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2680 v2. Also, the FX-4100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-4100 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-2680 v2 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-4100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.