AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E3-1245 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2532 points

2641 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3695 points

4341 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2157 points

0.89% slightly better multitasking score

2138 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2070 points

0.93% slightly better heavy workload score

2051 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

48.24 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2305 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

674 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2273 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

659 points

43% 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

3.40 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

630th of 1,105

613th of 1,105

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 E3-1245 V2 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1245 V2 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1245 V2. The info from our database shows that the FX-8320 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1245 V2. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the FX-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.