AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Xeon E3-1230

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 78.02

$ 187.85 significantly less expensive

$ 265.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2180 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3414 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1741 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the FX-8120 and the Xeon E3-1230? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

2572 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

671 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

1979 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

585 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-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

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8120 vs Xeon E3-1230 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8120 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E3-1230 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8120. The Xeon E3-1230 outputs less heat than FX-8120 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.