AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 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 E3-1226 v3

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 0.98 slightly less expensive

$ 99.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2307 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

4249 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

45.99 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2832 points

57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

871 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

3291 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1157 points

152% 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

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

84 W

13% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

699th of 1,118

677th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 E3-1226 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. 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. In terms of clock speed, the FX-8300 and Xeon E3-1226 v3 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1226 v3 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.