Intel Core i7-4790 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 4th Generation Core i7 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-8350

Price

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$ 98.75

$ 66.24 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2865 points

9% slightly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4473 points

15% slightly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2388 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2298 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2441 points

82% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

63.87 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3751 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1174 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3891 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1241 points

154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

488 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

3.60 GHz

4 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

84 W

48% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

558th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

4th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1333

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-4790 vs FX-8350 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-4790 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4790. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-4790. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 i7-4790 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.