AMD FX-6100 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Price

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$ 48.02

$ 12.23 slightly less expensive

$ 60.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1562 points

2495 points

59% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2587 points

3457 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1252 points

2187 points

74% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1201 points

2116 points

76% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

27.00 points

29.84 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1175 points

3177 points

170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

375 points

517 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1240 points

2144 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

387 points

440 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

49% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

795th of 1,089

628th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-6100 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the FX-6100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the FX-6100. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 3 cores found in the FX-6100. It also has more threads than the FX-6100. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6100 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2.

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 FX-6100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.