Intel Core i3-7100 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i3 2 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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$ 129.99

$ 35.00 slightly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1764 points

2626 points

48% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3405 points

3873 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1328 points

2226 points

67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1278 points

2136 points

67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2347 points

75% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.32 points

46.35 points

35% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2322 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1183 points

139% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2485 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1265 points

159% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

4 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

51 W

145% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

128 KiB

384 KiB

200% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

0.5 MiB

8 MiB

1500% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

764th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i3-7100 vs FX-8350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Core i3-7100 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8350 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-7100. Indeed, the FX-8350 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-7100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i3-7100. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-7100. The FX-8350 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Core i3-7100 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.