AMD FX-8150 vs Intel Core i7-8705G

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th 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

2382 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3360 points

3668 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1951 points

1988 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1878 points

1908 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.07 points

61.13 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

3878 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

512 points

1153 points

125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1758 points

3988 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

445 points

1284 points

188% 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

16% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

664th of 1,089

646th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8150 vs Core i7-8705G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8705G performs better than the FX-8150. 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8705G. Also, the FX-8150 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8705G 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8150 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8705G. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.