AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 60.25

$ 43.79 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

1% slightly better overall score

2495 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

2187 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2116 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

29.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

3177 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

517 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2144 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

440 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

48% significantly higher turbo speed

2.7 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

628th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 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 E5-2420 v2 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 beats the FX-8320 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8320 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8320 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8320. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. The Xeon E5-2420 v2 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.