AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-3570

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 i5-3570

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 92.20 significantly less expensive

$ 190.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2% slightly better overall score

2165 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

3984 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

1654 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

1587 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

31.99 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

1923 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

657 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

1926 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

656 points

42% significantly 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

3.4 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 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

699th of 1,118

708th of 1,118

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 i5-3570 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8300 beats the Core i5-3570 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-3570 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-3570 has a slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8300. Despite this, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3570 outputs less heat than FX-8300 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.