AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2630 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 E5-2630 v2

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 323.89 significantly less expensive

$ 488.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

2643 points

0.65% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3683 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

2305 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

2228 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

55.40 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2510 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

487 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2421 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

0.62% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

485 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

53% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

35% slightly higher turbo speed

3.1 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

603rd 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

2013 August

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 E5-2630 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2630 v2 is faster than the FX-8350. Despite this, the FX-8350 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2630 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8350 has 4 cores. 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 E5-2630 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.