AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-4670K

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 98.02
$ 26.98 slightly less expensive
$ 125.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points
2369 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points
4349 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
1811 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
1739 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points
49.53 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points
3533 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points
1242 points
164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points
3701 points
115% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
1301 points
183% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
3.40 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
84 W
13% slightly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089
648th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2013 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

-
No

FX-8300 vs Core i5-4670K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-4670K is faster than the FX-8300. 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-4670K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the FX-8300. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8300 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-4670K. The FX-8300 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.

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