AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-1603 v3

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

2534 points

37% slightly better overall score

1839 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

9% slightly better gaming score

3374 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

53% significantly better multitasking score

1406 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

53% significantly better heavy workload score

1350 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

29.86 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

11% slightly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

753rd 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 E5-1603 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Xeon E5-1603 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1603 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8320 has more threads. A FX-8320 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1603 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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.