AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-2500K

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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Price

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$ 98.02

$ 35.53 significantly less expensive

$ 133.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2325 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

4281 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

1776 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

1704 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

34.51 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

1893 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

629 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1910 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

650 points

41% 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

3.3 GHz

Identical

3.3 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

95 W

Identical

95 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

654th 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-8300 vs Core i5-2500K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-2500K beats the FX-8300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the FX-8300 and Core i5-2500K are identical in this regard.

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-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.