AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

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

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Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 24.96 slightly less expensive

$ 189.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

3% slightly better overall score

2544 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4070 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

2091 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

2009 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

39.80 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

618th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs Xeon E3-1230 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 V2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230 V2. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1230 V2. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.