AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Xeon E3-1280 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

2814 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

4480 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2320 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2227 points

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

3457 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points

956 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points

3800 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

1215 points

136% 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

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

82 W

168% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089

567th 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

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 E3-1280 v3 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E3-1280 v3 beats the FX-9370 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-9370 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1280 v3. Also, the FX-9370 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Xeon E3-1280 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.

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