AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1240 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2685 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4156 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2246 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2159 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

69.40 points

59% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

3742 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

1145 points

133% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

3690 points

84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1181 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

80 W

56% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

594th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8370 vs Xeon E3-1240 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1240 v3 is faster than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1240 v3. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1240 v3 outputs less heat than FX-8370 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.