AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 164.99
$ 119.95
$ 45.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
2681 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
4224 points
9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
0.13% slightly better multitasking score
2223 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
0.09% slightly better heavy workload score
2134 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
61.49 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points
3546 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points
1027 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points
3886 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points
1093 points
123% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
11% slightly lower TDP
140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089
595th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

FX-8350 vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-1620 v3.

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

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