AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon E5-2687W

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 E5-2687W

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 834.01 significantly less expensive

$ 999.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

4113 points

56% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4879 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

3854 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

3775 points

76% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

87.34 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

5319 points

162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

716 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3443 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

592 points

21% 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

28% slightly higher clock speed

3.10 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

20% slightly lower TDP

150 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

20 MiB

150% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

426th 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 E5-2687W comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2687W 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 E5-2687W has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E5-2687W. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2687W has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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.