AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon X5650

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5650

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 46.96

$ 57.08 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

14% slightly better overall score

2207 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

14% slightly better gaming score

3219 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

1889 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

1825 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

44.76 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2315 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

451 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2241 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

445 points

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

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.66 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

3.06 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

682nd 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 X5650 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Xeon X5650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5650 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon X5650 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8320 has 4 cores. 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 X5650. The Xeon X5650 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5650. Despite this, the Xeon X5650 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8320.

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.