AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i5-760

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 i5-760

Price

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$ 98.02

$ 53.76

$ 44.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points

47% significantly better overall score

1502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points

20% slightly better gaming score

2755 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points

62% significantly better multitasking score

1150 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points

62% significantly better heavy workload score

1104 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points

60% significantly higher Blender score

21.86 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1331 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points

Identical

470 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1259 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

448 points

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

17% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

3.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

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

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089

808th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8300 vs Core i5-760 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8300 performs better than the Core i5-760. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-760 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8300 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-760. Also, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the FX-8300 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-760. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.