AMD FX-8320E vs AMD Phenom II X6 1065T

FX-8320E vs Phenom II X6 1065T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320E performs better than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1065T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8320E that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8320E has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1065T. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T. In terms of cache, the Phenom II X6 1065T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the FX-8320E. Despite this, the FX-8320E has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Phenom II X6 1065T.

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-8320E has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.