AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2630

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 778.36 significantly less expensive

$ 856.38

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2586 points

19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

3592 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

2259 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

2183 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

38.04 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

3117 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

510 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

2380 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

448 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

610th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

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 E5-2630 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 performs better than the FX-8120. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8120 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 has significantly more cores than the FX-8120. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8120. It also has more threads than the FX-8120. Our comparison shows that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630. The Xeon E5-2630 outputs less heat than FX-8120 thanks to a slightly 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.