AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 58.12 significantly less expensive

$ 223.11

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

30% slightly better overall score

2007 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3728 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

1528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

1468 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

50.68 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2942 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1026 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3227 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1124 points

130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

713th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8350 vs Xeon E3-1220 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8350 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.