Intel Core i9-8950HK vs AMD FX-8300

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2143 points
2211 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3261 points
3316 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1816 points
1866 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1755 points
1792 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.61 points
143% significantly higher Blender score
35.10 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4580 points
154% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1799 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1270 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
470 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5219 points
203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1719 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1422 points
209% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
459 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.9 GHz
3.3 GHz
13% slightly 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

45 W
111% significantly lower TDP
95 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

698th of 1,092
682nd of 1,092

Family

The product line

8th Generation Core i9
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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