Intel Core i3-8145U vs AMD FX-8300

Compare Intel 8th 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-8300

Price

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$ 1551.00

$ 98.02

$ 1452.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1258 points

2211 points

75% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2455 points

3316 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

936 points

1866 points

99% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

895 points

1792 points

100% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

23.95 points

35.10 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1575 points

1799 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

794 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 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

2.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 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

4 MiB

8 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

880th of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i3

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i3-8145U vs FX-8300 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i3-8145U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-8145U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-8145U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-8145U. Our comparison shows that the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-8145U. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-8145U. The FX-8300 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 i3-8145U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.