Intel Core i5-8365U 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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$ 1278.00

$ 98.02

$ 1179.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1927 points

2211 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3320 points

0.12% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1537 points

1866 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1474 points

1792 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.28 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2419 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

638 points

35% slightly 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

4.1 GHz

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

731st 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

2019 May

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 i5-8365U vs FX-8300 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8365U is faster than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8365U.

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 i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.