AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i7-2600

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 i7-2600

Price

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$ 68.02

$ 158.35 significantly less expensive

$ 226.37

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

2539 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

3984 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

2108 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

2031 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

38.63 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2047 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

608 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

2040 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

610 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

619th 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 i7-2600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-2600 beats the FX-8150 in overall performance. 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 and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8150 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600. The Core i7-2600 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.

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.