AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-3470S

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 i5-3470S

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 522.98 significantly less expensive

$ 621.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

18% slightly better overall score

1864 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3436 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

1423 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

1365 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

23% slightly higher Blender score

28.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1747 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

606 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1722 points

0.17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

598 points

30% 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

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 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

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

748th 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 i5-3470S specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i5-3470S in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3470S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count 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 i5-3470S.

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.