Intel Core i5-8500 vs AMD FX-8350

Core i5-8500 vs FX-8350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-8500 is faster than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-8500 has significantly more cores than the FX-8350. Indeed, the Core i5-8500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8350. Despite this, the FX-8350 has more threads than the Core i5-8500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-8500. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8500. Despite this, the Core i5-8500 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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. For instance, the Core i5-8500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.