AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i5-3550

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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Intel Core i5-3550

Price

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$ 68.02

$ 230.93 significantly less expensive

$ 298.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

8% slightly better overall score

2119 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

3894 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

1620 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1555 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

27.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1939 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

644 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

1924 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

645 points

44% 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

77 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

702nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8150 vs Core i5-3550 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8150 beats the Core i5-3550 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3550 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8150 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8150 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3550. The Core i5-3550 outputs less heat than FX-8150 thanks to a 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 FX-8150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.