AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 125.09 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

10% slightly better overall score

2007 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3728 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

22% slightly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

50.68 points

44% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2942 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

1026 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

3227 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1124 points

144% significantly 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

3.3 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8300 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.