Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Xeon E3 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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$ 265.87

$ 178.02

$ 87.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

2342 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

3438 points

0.70% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

1993 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

1917 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

36.00 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2572 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

671 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1979 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

585 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

Identical

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% 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

686th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E3 Family

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 May

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E3-1230 vs FX-8320E specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320E performs better than the Xeon E3-1230. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Xeon E3-1230 and FX-8320E have the same clock speed. A Xeon E3-1230 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.

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 Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.