Intel Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs AMD FX-8320E

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

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AMD FX-8320E

Price

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$ 223.11

$ 178.02

$ 45.09 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2007 points

2342 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3728 points

8% slightly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1528 points

1993 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1468 points

1917 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

50.68 points

40% slightly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2942 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1026 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3227 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1124 points

157% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.2 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

713th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 v3 Family

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 May

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1220 v3 vs FX-8320E comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Xeon E3-1220 v3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1220 v3 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8320E has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E3-1220 v3. A Xeon E3-1220 v3 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its slightly 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. For instance, the Xeon E3-1220 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.