AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Xeon X5670

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 104.04
$ 88.88
$ 15.16 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points
3118 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points
4250 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points
2751 points
27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points
2664 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points
51.81 points
36% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points
2417 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points
470 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points
2310 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
491 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.33 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
522nd 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 X5670 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Xeon X5670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon X5670 has significantly more cores than the FX-8320. Indeed, the Xeon X5670 has 6 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 slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon X5670. The Xeon X5670 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon X5670. Despite this, the Xeon X5670 has significantly more L3 cache compared to 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.

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