AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

20% slightly better overall score

1839 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3374 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

29.86 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

47% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

699th of 1,118

774th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8300 vs Xeon E5-1603 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Xeon E5-1603 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. A FX-8300 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its significantly 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.