AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2643 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 E5-2643 v2

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 233.96 significantly less expensive

$ 398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

4657 points

77% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

5043 points

30% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

4542 points

104% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

4510 points

111% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

4201 points

107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

702 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3212 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

642 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

373rd 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 E5-2643 v2 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2643 v2 is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2643 v2 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2643 v2.

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.