Intel Xeon E5-2640 vs AMD FX-8350

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-8350

Price

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$ 65.00

$ 99.99 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2849 points

8% slightly better overall score

2623 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3820 points

3863 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2537 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

2225 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2462 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.31 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3360 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2265 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

450 points

488 points

8% 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

2.50 GHz

4 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz

4.2 GHz

40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

125 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB

87% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

579th of 1,118

626th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Xeon E5 Family

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 February

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 E5-2640 vs FX-8350 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-2640 beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8350 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-2640. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Xeon E5-2640 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8350 CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Xeon E5-2640. Despite this, the Xeon E5-2640 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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 E5-2640 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.