Intel Core i5-3330 vs AMD FX-8320E

Compare Intel Core 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-8320E

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 178.02

$ 20.98 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1786 points

2342 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3295 points

3438 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1364 points

1993 points

46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1310 points

1917 points

46% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

24.32 points

36.00 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1533 points

1615 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

538 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1647 points

1680 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

558 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

437 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

3.2 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.2 GHz

4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

759th of 1,089

651st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 August

2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-3330 vs FX-8320E comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320E performs better than the Core i5-3330. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3330 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8320E has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3330. A Core i5-3330 CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3330 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.