AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2678 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4361 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2181 points

0.23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2092 points

0.05% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

50.58 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2287 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

663 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2338 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

672 points

36% slightly 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

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 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

597th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8370 vs Xeon E3-1270 V2 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E3-1270 V2 performs better 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1270 V2. In terms of cache, the FX-8370 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Xeon E3-1270 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.