AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2643

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 1992.01 significantly less expensive

$ 2157.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

2971 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4108 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

2620 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

2542 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

40.83 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2888 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

646 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2094 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

566 points

15% slightly 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

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

542nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 E5-2643 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2643 beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

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 E5-2643.

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.