Intel Xeon E5-1620 v2 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 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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$ 30.00

$ 148.02 significantly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2286 points

2342 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3603 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1895 points

1993 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1822 points

1917 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

49.31 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2305 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

633 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2380 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

645 points

47% significantly 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

3.7 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

95 W

36% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

665th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v2 Family

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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 E5-1620 v2 vs FX-8320E comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Xeon E5-1620 v2. Despite this, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8320E. The FX-8320E outputs less heat than Xeon E5-1620 v2 thanks to a 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. Indeed, the Xeon E5-1620 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.