AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2650

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 103.11

$ 0.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

2944 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

2761 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2710 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

58.36 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

4002 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

515 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2564 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

42% much higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

547th 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 E5-2650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 beats the FX-8320 in overall performance. 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 E5-2650 has significantly more cores than the FX-8320. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2650 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8320. 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 E5-2650. The Xeon E5-2650 outputs less heat than FX-8320 thanks to a 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.