AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2291 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

13% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

2085 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

2031 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

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

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

57% significantly higher turbo speed

2.66 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

3100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-620 beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8300 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-620. The FX-8300 also has significantly more 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.