Intel Xeon E3-1230 vs AMD FX-8370E

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-8370E

Price

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$ 265.87

$ 212.02

$ 53.85 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2180 points

0.79% slightly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3414 points

5% slightly better gaming score

3237 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1814 points

1826 points

0.66% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1741 points

1753 points

0.69% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.69 points

34.44 points

15% slightly higher Blender 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

3.2 GHz

3.3 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.3 GHz

19% 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

691st 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-8370E specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8370E beats the Xeon E3-1230 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E3-1230 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Xeon E3-1230. Also, the FX-8370E has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E3-1230 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370E CPU because of its slightly 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 Xeon E3-1230 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.