AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Xeon X5570

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 X5570

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 0.93 slightly less expensive

$ 98.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

0.50% slightly better overall score

2200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3421 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1823 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

1750 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2624 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

541 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1741 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

480 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

12% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

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

699th of 1,118

702nd of 1,118

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 X5570 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Xeon X5570. Despite this, the Xeon X5570 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon X5570. Also, the FX-8300 has a slightly 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5570. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.