AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 60.25

$ 104.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

5% slightly better overall score

2495 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

12% slightly better gaming score

3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2187 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

0.95% slightly better heavy workload score

2116 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

55% significantly higher Blender score

29.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

3177 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

517 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2144 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

440 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

81% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

55% significantly higher turbo speed

2.7 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

628th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8350 vs Xeon E5-2420 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Xeon E5-2420 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2420 v2 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the FX-8350. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8350. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2.

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.