Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 6th 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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AMD FX-8350

Price

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$ 175.64

$ 164.99

$ 10.65 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points

4% slightly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points

31% slightly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points

2226 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points

2136 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2595 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3989 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points

183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points

103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 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

3.5 GHz

4 GHz

14% slightly 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

91 W

37% slightly 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

578th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6600K vs FX-8350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600K is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8350 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6600K. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6600K. The FX-8350 also has slightly 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.