Intel Core i5-7400T vs AMD FX-8150

Compare Intel 7th 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

$ 64.56
$ 3.46 slightly less expensive
$ 68.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1685 points
2289 points
35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points
3360 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1274 points
1951 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1223 points
1878 points
53% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

34.25 points
35.07 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2718 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2396 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

983 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
512 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2847 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1758 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1029 points
131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
445 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.4 GHz
3.6 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3 GHz
4.2 GHz
40% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W
257% 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

778th of 1,089
664th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i5
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
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 i5-7400T vs FX-8150 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8150 performs better than the Core i5-7400T. Despite this, the Core i5-7400T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8150 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8150 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7400T. A Core i5-7400T CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8150 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8150 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7400T. The FX-8150 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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. For instance, the Core i5-7400T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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