AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 231.93 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2407 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

4431 points

33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

47.62 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

3379 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

1204 points

156% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

3325 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1198 points

161% 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

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 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

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

681st of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1866

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 v5 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 is faster than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Also, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 outputs less heat than FX-8300 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-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. 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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.