AMD FX-9370 vs Intel Xeon E5-2670

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E5 Family 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Xeon E5-2670

Price

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$ 212.02

$ 279.38 significantly less expensive

$ 491.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2779 points

3% slightly better overall score

2679 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4131 points

9% slightly better gaming score

3763 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2350 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

2311 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2255 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

2218 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

51.74 points

69.61 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2272 points

3089 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

545 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

491 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2031 points

3052 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

514 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

505 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.4 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

42% slightly higher turbo speed

3.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

220 W

115 W

91% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

575th of 1,089

596th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Xeon E5 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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-9370 vs Xeon E5-2670 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-9370 performs better than the Xeon E5-2670. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2670 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2670 has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the FX-9370 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-9370. Our comparison shows that the FX-9370 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2670. The Xeon E5-2670 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.