AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-3570K

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 i5-3570K

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 40.98 significantly less expensive

$ 139.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

2217 points

0.27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

4077 points

22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1627 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

35.69 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

2162 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

704 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

2062 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

688 points

49% 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

681st of 1,089

679th 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 i5-3570K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-3570K 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-3570K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300.

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.