Intel Core i7-6700 vs AMD FX-8350

Compare Intel 6th 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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$ 122.39

$ 42.60 significantly less expensive

$ 164.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3117 points

18% slightly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4991 points

28% slightly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2559 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2457 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2828 points

111% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.31 points

49% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4052 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1252 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4207 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1320 points

170% 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

3.4 GHz

4 GHz

17% 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

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

523rd of 1,089

605th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700 vs FX-8350 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6700 performs better than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.