AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i5-2500K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 68.02

$ 65.53 significantly less expensive

$ 133.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

2325 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

4281 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

1776 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1704 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

34.51 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1893 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

629 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

1910 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

650 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

654th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8150 vs Core i5-2500K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-2500K is faster than the FX-8150. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8150 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8150 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8150 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2500K. The Core i5-2500K outputs less heat than FX-8150 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 FX-8150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.