AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v2

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 384.84 significantly less expensive

$ 488.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

2643 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

0.41% slightly better gaming score

3683 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

2305 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2228 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

55.40 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2510 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

487 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2421 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

485 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

34% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 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

603rd 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

2013 August

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 E5-2630 v2 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 performs better than the FX-8320. Despite this, the FX-8320 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores than the FX-8320. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8320. It also has more threads than the FX-8320. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2630 v2. Also, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2630 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.