AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 68.02

$ 30.00

$ 38.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

0.13% slightly better overall score

2286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

3603 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1822 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

49.31 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2305 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

633 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

2380 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

645 points

44% significantly 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

3.6 GHz

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8150 vs Xeon E5-1620 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8150 performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8150. A FX-8150 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-8150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.