Intel Core i5-3550S 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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$ 149.95

$ 28.07 slightly less expensive

$ 178.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1279 points

2342 points

83% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2353 points

3438 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

976 points

1993 points

104% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

937 points

1917 points

104% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2383 points

47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1615 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

708 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

434 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1747 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1680 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

619 points

41% 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

3.7 GHz

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

876th 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 May

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 i5-3550S vs FX-8320E specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320E is faster than the Core i5-3550S. Despite this, the Core i5-3550S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8320E has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320E has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3550S. A Core i5-3550S CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320E CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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. For instance, the Core i5-3550S has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.