AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-3550

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 i5-3550

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 200.93 significantly less expensive

$ 298.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

4% slightly better overall score

2119 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3894 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

1620 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

1555 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

28% slightly higher Blender score

27.36 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

1939 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

644 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1924 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

645 points

40% 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

77 W

23% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

702nd 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 i5-3550 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i5-3550. Despite this, the Core i5-3550 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. According to our data, the FX-8300 and Core i5-3550 have the same clock speed.

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.