Intel Core i7-8665U vs AMD FX-8350

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-8350

Price

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$ 1540.00

$ 164.99

$ 1375.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2271 points

2626 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3777 points

3873 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1836 points

2226 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1758 points

2136 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

45.82 points

46.35 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2425 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2027 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

765 points

55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

493 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

4 GHz

110% 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

733% significantly lower TDP

125 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

669th of 1,089

605th of 1,089

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-8350 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-8665U.

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.