AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 30.00

$ 258.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

11% slightly better overall score

2286 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

1895 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

1822 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

49.31 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

2305 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

633 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

2380 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

645 points

30% 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

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 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

665th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v2 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2013 August

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 v2 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8370 performs better than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-1620 v2 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 E5-1620 v2. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-8370 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v2 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.