AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 49.38

$ 54.66 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

2675 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4187 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

2229 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2142 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2853 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2287 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

65.17 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

3858 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

1168 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

3756 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1192 points

160% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) 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

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

598th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8320 vs Xeon E3-1231 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1231 v3 is faster than the FX-8320. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1231 v3. The Xeon E3-1231 v3 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.

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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.