AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i7-4850HQ

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

2386 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

4177 points

24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

1866 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1778 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

51.15 points

45% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

3194 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

928 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

3202 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

999 points

124% significantly 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

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

20% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

47 W

165% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

645th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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 i7-4850HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4850HQ beats the FX-8150 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8150 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8150 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4850HQ. The Core i7-4850HQ 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.