Intel Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Xeon E5 v3 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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$ 198.95

$ 178.02

$ 20.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1767 points

2342 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2784 points

3438 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1446 points

1993 points

37% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1388 points

1917 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2526 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2743 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

617 points

41% 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

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.9 GHz

3.2 GHz

68% significantly higher clock 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

763rd of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 v3 Family

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Xeon E5-2609 v3 vs FX-8320E specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320E beats the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E5-2609 v3 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8320E that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8320E has more threads than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320E has a significantly higher clock speed than the Xeon E5-2609 v3. A Xeon E5-2609 v3 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.

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. For instance, the Xeon E5-2609 v3 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.