AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1230

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 167.85 significantly less expensive

$ 265.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

1% slightly better overall score

2180 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3414 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1814 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1741 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

29.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2572 points

42% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

671 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1979 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

585 points

27% slightly 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

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 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

686th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

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-8300 vs Xeon E3-1230 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230.

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.