AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-3470

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 i5-3470

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 119.37 significantly less expensive

$ 217.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

9% slightly better overall score

2020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3714 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

1543 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

1482 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

30.09 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

1862 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

620 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1843 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

622 points

35% 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

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

16% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

712th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 May

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-8300 vs Core i5-3470 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8300 is faster than the Core i5-3470. Despite this, the Core i5-3470 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-3470.

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.