Intel Core i5-8365U vs AMD FX-8320

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-8320

Price

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$ 1278.00

$ 104.04

$ 1173.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1927 points

2534 points

31% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3320 points

3698 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1537 points

2159 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1474 points

2072 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.28 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

37.97 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2419 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1814 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

638 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 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

3.5 GHz

118% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

125 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

731st of 1,089

620th 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-8320 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Core i5-8365U. Despite this, the Core i5-8365U 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8365U. A Core i5-8365U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8320 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-8365U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.