AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

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 E5-2670

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 326.41 significantly less expensive

$ 491.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2623 points

2679 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3863 points

2% slightly better gaming score

3763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2225 points

2311 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

2218 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

69.61 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

3089 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

0.41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

491 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3052 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

505 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

53% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

115 W

8% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th of 1,118

617th of 1,118

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 E5-2670 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2670 is faster than the FX-8350. Despite this, the FX-8350 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores than the FX-8350. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2670 has 8 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 E5-2670. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-2670 outputs less heat than FX-8350 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.