AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 V2

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 288.02
$ 150.00
$ 138.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points
2562 points
0.23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points
4064 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
2114 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
2029 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
39.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089
613th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-8370 vs Xeon E3-1240 V2 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1240 V2 beats the FX-8370 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1240 V2. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8370 has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E3-1240 V2. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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