AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E3-1230 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 E3-1230 v3

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 113.51 significantly less expensive

$ 278.50

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

3% slightly better overall score

2545 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

3940 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

2128 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2046 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

3667 points

174% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

61.88 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

3681 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1126 points

128% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3699 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1160 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 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

617th 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 E3-1230 v3 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Xeon E3-1230 v3 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1230 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1230 v3.

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.