AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Xeon X5670

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon X5670

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 88.88

$ 76.11 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

3118 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4250 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

2751 points

23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

2664 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

51.81 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2417 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2310 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

491 points

0.61% 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

36% slightly higher clock speed

2.93 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

522nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 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 X5670 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Xeon X5670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon X5670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon X5670 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 X5670. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon X5670. Despite this, the Xeon X5670 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.