Intel Core i5-8250U vs AMD FX-8350

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-8350

Price

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$ 1527.00

$ 164.99

$ 1362.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1907 points

2626 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3207 points

3873 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1532 points

2226 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1465 points

2136 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1696 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

38.03 points

46.35 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1971 points

2027 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

771 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 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

4 GHz

150% 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

733% 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

738th of 1,089

605th 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-8350 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i5-8250U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8250U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8250U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-8250U. 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. Indeed, the Core i5-8250U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.