Intel Xeon E5-2420 vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare Intel Xeon E5 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-8370E

Price

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$ 355.55

$ 212.02

$ 143.53 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2140 points

2163 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2978 points

3237 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1875 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1814 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.28 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

34.44 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

1.9 GHz

3.3 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.4 GHz

4.3 GHz

79% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

697th of 1,089

691st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 E5-2420 vs FX-8370E comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8370E performs better 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-8370E. Indeed, the Xeon E5-2420 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8370E. It also has more threads than the FX-8370E. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8370E has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2420. Also, the FX-8370E has a significantly higher turbo speed. 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.

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 E5-2420 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.