AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon E5-620

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

10% slightly better overall score

2291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

26% slightly better gaming score

2929 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2085 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

2031 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1482 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

366 points

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

38% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

50% significantly higher turbo 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

3100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

662nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 E5-620 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Xeon E5-620 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-620 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 FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the FX-8320 has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 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 FX-8320 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The FX-8320 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.