Intel Xeon E5-430 vs AMD FX-8370E

Compare Intel Xeon 4 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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$ 129.95

$ 82.07 significantly less expensive

$ 212.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2250 points

4% slightly better overall score

2163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3133 points

3237 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1956 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

1826 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1887 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

1753 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

9.25 points

34.44 points

272% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.66 GHz

3.3 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

80 W

18% slightly lower TDP

95 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

8 MiB

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

673rd of 1,089

691st of 1,089

Family

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Xeon

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2007 November

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Xeon E5-430 vs FX-8370E comparison

In our benchmarks, the Xeon E5-430 beats the FX-8370E in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8370E has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8370E has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8370E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Xeon E5-430. A Xeon E5-430 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8370E 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 Xeon E5-430 has more L2 cache than the FX-8370E

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Xeon E5-430 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.