AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1226 v3

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 v3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 212.02
$ 99.00
$ 113.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2779 points
20% slightly better overall score
2307 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points
4249 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
33% slightly better multitasking score
1762 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score
1691 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
45.99 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points
2832 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points
871 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points
3291 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points
1157 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz
33% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W
84 W
161% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089
658th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

FX-9370 vs Xeon E3-1226 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-9370 is faster than the Xeon E3-1226 v3. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1226 v3 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-9370 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1226 v3. The Xeon E3-1226 v3 outputs less heat than FX-9370 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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