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

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points
3% slightly better overall score
2437 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points
4011 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points
9% slightly better multitasking score
1975 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
1896 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points
58.49 points
54% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points
3734 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points
1146 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points
3820 points
113% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
1203 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

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
84 W
48% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089
639th 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

-
2013 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 E3-1245 v3 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Xeon E3-1245 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1245 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 E3-1245 v3. The Xeon E3-1245 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.

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.

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