AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 120.93 significantly less expensive

$ 198.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

22% slightly better overall score

1767 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2784 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

1446 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

1388 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

2526 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

461 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

2743 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

617 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

63% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 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

763rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8120 vs Xeon E5-2609 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8120 performs better than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores than the FX-8120. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has more threads than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2609 v3. The Xeon E5-2609 v3 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.

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