Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs AMD FX-8320E

Xeon E5-2420 vs FX-8320E benchmarks

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Xeon E5-2420 has significantly more cores than the FX-8320E. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8320E. It also has more threads than the FX-8320E. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320E has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2420. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.