AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2650

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

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Intel Xeon E5-2650

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 103.11

$ 61.88 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

2944 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3493 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

2761 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

2710 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

58.36 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

4002 points

97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

515 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2564 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

403 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

100% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

49% significantly higher turbo speed

2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

547th 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 E5-2650 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2650 beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8350 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2650 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the FX-8350 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2650.

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.