Intel Core i7-8665U vs AMD FX-8300

Compare Intel 8th 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-8300

Price

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$ 1540.00

$ 98.02

$ 1441.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2221 points

0.45% slightly better overall score

2211 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3679 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1800 points

1866 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1725 points

1792 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

35.10 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2425 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1799 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

765 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

470 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

1.9 GHz

3.3 GHz

73% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

696th of 1,118

699th of 1,118

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i7

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

DDR4-2400

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-8665U vs FX-8300 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-8665U is faster than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-8665U CPU outputs less heat than a FX-8300 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-8665U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.