AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1270 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2779 points
2874 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points
4648 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points
0.04% slightly better multitasking score
2349 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points
0.04% slightly better heavy workload score
2254 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points
65.90 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points
3825 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points
1137 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points
3898 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points
1225 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz
25% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W
80 W
175% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

594th of 1,121
576th of 1,121

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
Xeon E3 v3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 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 E3-1270 v3 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E3-1270 v3 is faster than the FX-9370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9370 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-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1270 v3. Also, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1270 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.

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-9370 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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