AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i5-3550S

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 i5-3550S

Price

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$ 68.02

$ 81.93 significantly less expensive

$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

78% significantly better overall score

1279 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

42% slightly better gaming score

2353 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

99% significantly better multitasking score

976 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

100% significantly better heavy workload score

937 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

0.55% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2383 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

708 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

0.63% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1747 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

619 points

39% slightly 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

20% slightly higher clock speed

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

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

876th 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 i5-3550S specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8150 is faster than the Core i5-3550S. Despite this, the Core i5-3550S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8150 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8150 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3550S. The Core i5-3550S 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8150 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.