AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-1620 v3

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 119.95

$ 168.07 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

2681 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4224 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

2223 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

2134 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

61.49 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2035 points

3546 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

491 points

1027 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

3886 points

94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1093 points

121% 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

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

11% slightly lower TDP

140 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

595th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8370 vs Xeon E5-1620 v3 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-1620 v3 is faster 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-1620 v3. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-8370 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E5-1620 v3 CPU because of its slightly 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.