Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD FX-8300

Compare Intel 8th 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-8300

Price

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$ 1527.00

$ 98.02

$ 1428.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

2211 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

3316 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

1866 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

1792 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

1.6 GHz

3.3 GHz

106% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz

4.2 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 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

738th of 1,089

681st of 1,089

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i5

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-8250U vs FX-8300 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i5-8250U. Despite this, the Core i5-8250U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8250U. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8250U. The FX-8300 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.