Intel Core i7-6700K 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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$ 274.86

$ 164.99

$ 109.87 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3497 points

33% slightly better overall score

2626 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5633 points

45% significantly better gaming score

3873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2866 points

28% slightly better multitasking score

2226 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2751 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

2136 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3242 points

142% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

1338 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

81.27 points

75% significantly higher Blender score

46.35 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4822 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1442 points

192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4936 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1989 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1506 points

208% 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

4 GHz

Identical

4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

Identical

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

31% slightly 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

482nd 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 i7-6700K vs FX-8350 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700K beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. 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. Both the Core i7-6700K and FX-8350 have the same clock speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.