Intel Core i5-10500 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 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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$ 159.00

$ 5.99 slightly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4526 points

72% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6446 points

66% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3934 points

76% significantly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3805 points

78% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7252 points

442% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

124.71 points

169% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5596 points

176% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1501 points

204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5547 points

178% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1529 points

213% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

4 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

7% 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

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 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

387th of 1,089

605th 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

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 i5-10500 vs FX-8350 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500 beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-10500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8350 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10500. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-10500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.