AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 3 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220

Price

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$ 50.00

$ 65.00 significantly less expensive

$ 115.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

1881 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3441 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

0.14% slightly better multitasking score

1439 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

0.22% slightly better heavy workload score

1379 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

27.68 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

2143 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

649 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

1577 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

532 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

757th of 1,089

746th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-6300 vs Xeon E3-1220 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-6300 performs better than the Xeon E3-1220. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E3-1220 has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. Despite this, the FX-6300 has more threads than the Xeon E3-1220. Our comparison shows that the FX-6300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220.

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-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.