AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 692.96 significantly less expensive

$ 797.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2529 points

0.56% slightly better overall score

2515 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points

4643 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2155 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2068 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

1844 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

260.30 points

585% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

9626 points

437% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

1351 points

194% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

20% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

640th of 1,118

645th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8320 vs Xeon Gold 6226R benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Xeon Gold 6226R in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the FX-8320 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8320. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6226R. Also, the FX-8320 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-8320 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R CPU because of its 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.