Intel Xeon E5-2620 vs AMD FX-8320E

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-8320E

Price

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$ 207.15

$ 178.02

$ 29.13 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2694 points

15% slightly better overall score

2342 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3212 points

3438 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2534 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1993 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2503 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

1917 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.93 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

36.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2793 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1902 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

390 points

437 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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 GHz

3.2 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

2.5 GHz

4 GHz

60% 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

591st of 1,089

651st 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 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 E5-2620 vs FX-8320E specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Xeon E5-2620 performs better than the FX-8320E. Despite this, the FX-8320E has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Xeon E5-2620 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8320E has 4 cores. 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 E5-2620. 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 E5-2620 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.