AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E5-520

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

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Intel Xeon E5-520

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 24.60

$ 73.42 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

31% slightly better overall score

1676 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

33% slightly better gaming score

2485 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

1418 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

1363 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

21.48 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1691 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

385 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1430 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

362 points

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

45% significantly higher clock speed

2.26 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

66% significantly higher turbo speed

2.53 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

780th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 February

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 E5-520 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Xeon E5-520 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-520 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-520. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-520. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.