Intel Core i3-12100F vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 12th 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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$ 93.99

$ 71.00 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5223 points

98% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8443 points

117% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4270 points

91% significantly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4098 points

91% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4038 points

201% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.71 points

130% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7143 points

252% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2123 points

330% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7384 points

271% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2218 points

354% 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

3.3 GHz

4 GHz

21% 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

58 W

115% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

320 KiB

384 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

323rd of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Core i3-12100F vs FX-8350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i3-12100F beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-12100F.

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 i3-12100F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.