AMD FX-8370 vs Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 2nd Generation Xeon Scalable 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon Gold 6226R

Price

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$ 288.02

$ 508.98 significantly less expensive

$ 797.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2556 points

1% slightly better overall score

2515 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3746 points

4643 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2176 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

1920 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2091 points

13% slightly better heavy workload score

1844 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

43.47 points

260.30 points

498% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1998 points

9626 points

381% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

494 points

1351 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

37% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 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

20% slightly lower TDP

150 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

200% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

614th of 1,089

625th of 1,089

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The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

2nd Generation Xeon Scalable

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2020 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

FX-8370 vs Xeon Gold 6226R specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8370 is faster than the Xeon Gold 6226R. Despite this, the Xeon Gold 6226R has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon Gold 6226R has significantly more cores than the FX-8370. Indeed, the Xeon Gold 6226R has 16 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8370. It also has more threads than the FX-8370. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon Gold 6226R. Also, the FX-8370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A FX-8370 CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon Gold 6226R 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.