AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 257.53 significantly less expensive

$ 355.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

3% slightly better overall score

2140 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

11% slightly better gaming score

2978 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

1875 points

0.48% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

1814 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

36.28 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2643 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

453 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1814 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

378 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

75% significantly higher turbo speed

2.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

699th of 1,118

716th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 E5-2420 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Xeon E5-2420 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the FX-8300. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8300. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.