AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 85.91 significantly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

2544 points

0.39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4070 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

2009 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

39.80 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

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

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 is faster than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. In terms of cache, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. 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.