AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-430

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

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Intel Xeon E5-430

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 25.91 slightly less expensive

$ 129.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

12% slightly better overall score

2250 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

18% slightly better gaming score

3133 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1956 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1887 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

310% significantly higher Blender score

9.25 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1179 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

376 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1041 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

356 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

673rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320 vs Xeon E5-430 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Xeon E5-430. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-430 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8320 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. The Xeon E5-430 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. The info from our database shows that the Xeon E5-430 has more L2 cache than the FX-8320

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.