AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 49.04 significantly less expensive

$ 153.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

2735 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

4274 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

2280 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2192 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

40.70 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2284 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

592 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2244 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

611 points

33% slightly 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

3.6 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

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

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

582nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8320 vs Xeon E5-1620 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-1620 beats the FX-8320 in overall performance. 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8320. A FX-8320 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.