AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Xeon X5570

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 X5570

Price

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$ 68.02

$ 30.93 significantly less expensive

$ 98.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

4% slightly better overall score

2200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

3421 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1750 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

2624 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

541 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

0.98% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1741 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

480 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.6 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

685th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

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 X5570 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon X5570 beats the FX-8150 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8150 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8150 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8150 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5570. The Xeon X5570 outputs less heat than FX-8150 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8150 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5570. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.