AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i3-1115G4

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i3 2 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

2211 points

20% slightly better overall score

1829 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3698 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

1348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

1293 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

29.31 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2919 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

1506 points

220% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

3077 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

1579 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

3.00 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

95 W

28 W

239% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

220% significantly more L2 cache

2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

755th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

11th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8300 vs Core i3-1115G4 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Core i3-1115G4. Despite this, the Core i3-1115G4 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8300 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Core i3-1115G4 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1115G4. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1115G4. In terms of cache, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-1115G4. The FX-8300 also has slightly more 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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.