Intel Xeon E5-2420 v2 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v2 Family 6 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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$ 60.25

$ 117.77 significantly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2495 points

6% slightly better overall score

2342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3457 points

0.55% slightly better gaming score

3438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2187 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1993 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2116 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1917 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

29.84 points

36.00 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3177 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

517 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2144 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

440 points

0.69% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.2 GHz

3.2 GHz

45% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.7 GHz

4 GHz

48% significantly 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

628th 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

2014 February

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 E5-2420 v2 vs FX-8320E specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 is faster than the FX-8320E. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320E in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has significantly more cores than the FX-8320E. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 v2 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8320E. It also has more threads than the FX-8320E. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420 v2. A Xeon E5-2420 v2 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 E5-2420 v2 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.