AMD FX-6300 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD FX 6-Core Black Edition 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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$ 50.00

$ 10.25 slightly less expensive

$ 60.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1799 points

2495 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2999 points

3457 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1441 points

2187 points

51% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1382 points

2116 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.92 points

29.84 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1489 points

3177 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

472 points

517 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1426 points

2144 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

454 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

440 points

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

3.5 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

2.7 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

628th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 6-Core Black Edition

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

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 E5-2420 v2 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the FX-6300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-6300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-6300 has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-6300. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-6300 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-6300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.