Intel Core i7-12700 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i7 12 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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$ 318.24

$ 164.99

$ 153.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10390 points

295% significantly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12574 points

224% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9694 points

335% significantly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9533 points

346% significantly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9515 points

611% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

259.30 points

459% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9492 points

368% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1788 points

262% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10978 points

451% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2375 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

150% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

4 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

16% 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

960 KiB

150% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB

212% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

78th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-12700 vs FX-8350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-12700 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 i7-12700 has significantly more cores than the FX-8350. Indeed, the Core i7-12700 has 12 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8350. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-12700.

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 i7-12700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.