AMD FX-8370E vs Intel Xeon E5-620

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon 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

2163 points

14% slightly better overall score

1884 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3237 points

22% slightly better gaming score

2639 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1826 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1648 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1753 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

1596 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.44 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

25.76 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.53 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

61% significantly higher turbo speed

2.66 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

3100% significantly more L2 cache

0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

68166% significantly more L3 cache

0.01 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

705th of 1,112

761st of 1,112

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 September

2010 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-8370E vs Xeon E5-620 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-620 is faster than the FX-8370E. Despite this, the FX-8370E has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-620. Also, the FX-8370E has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E5-620 outputs less heat than FX-8370E thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8370E has significantly more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-620. The FX-8370E also has significantly more 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-8370E has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.