AMD FX-8120 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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

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Intel Xeon E5-430

Price

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$ 78.02

$ 51.93 significantly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2156 points

2250 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3158 points

0.80% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1833 points

1956 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1760 points

1887 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.29 points

248% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1601 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

443 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1521 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

410 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

694th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8120 vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-430 performs better than the FX-8120. Despite this, the FX-8120 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8120 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8120 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-430. The Xeon E5-430 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 info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-430 has more L2 cache than the FX-8120

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-8120 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.