Intel Core i5-10210U vs AMD FX-8320

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 1639.00
$ 104.04
$ 1534.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2205 points
2534 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3819 points
3% slightly better gaming score
3698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1744 points
2159 points
23% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1666 points
2072 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

36.33 points
37.97 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2911 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1814 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

948 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
461 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3069 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1791 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1196 points
161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz
3.5 GHz
118% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
733% 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

684th of 1,089
620th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-10210U vs FX-8320 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Core i5-10210U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-10210U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. A Core i5-10210U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10210U. The FX-8320 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 i5-10210U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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