AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 225.91 significantly less expensive

$ 329.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

5% slightly better overall score

2407 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4431 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1840 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1766 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

47.62 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

3379 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

1204 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3325 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1198 points

161% significantly 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

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly 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

620th of 1,089

642nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8320 vs Xeon E3-1220 v5 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1220 v5 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8320 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. Also, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1220 v5 outputs less heat than FX-8320 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v5. 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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.