AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 153.08

$ 134.94 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2735 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4274 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2280 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2192 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

40.70 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2284 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

592 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2244 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

611 points

23% 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

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 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

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

582nd 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

2014 September

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-8370 vs Xeon E5-1620 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-1620 performs better than the FX-8370. 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 E5-1620. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-8370 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.