Intel Core i5-9500 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i5 6 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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$ 149.00

$ 15.99 slightly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3906 points

48% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6425 points

65% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3132 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3003 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

95.73 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4834 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4973 points

150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1468 points

200% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

4 GHz

33% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

9 MiB

12% slightly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

441st of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th 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

DDR4-2666

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-9500 vs FX-8350 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-9500 performs better than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-9500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8350 has more threads than the Core i5-9500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-9500. Despite this, the Core i5-9500 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 i5-9500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.