Intel Core i3-10100 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i3 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-8350

Price

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$ 139.78

$ 25.21 slightly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3478 points

32% slightly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points

43% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2857 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2743 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4780 points

257% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

75.47 points

62% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4319 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1401 points

184% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4213 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1432 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

485th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-10100 vs FX-8350 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-10100 performs better than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-10100. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-10100. The FX-8350 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 Core i3-10100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.