AMD FX-8300 vs Intel Core i7-9850H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2211 points
4014 points
81% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3316 points
5637 points
69% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1866 points
3514 points
88% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1792 points
3402 points
89% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

35.10 points
87.11 points
148% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1799 points
5022 points
179% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

470 points
1359 points
189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1719 points
5044 points
193% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
1387 points
202% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.6 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
45 W
111% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

681st of 1,089
434th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-8300 vs Core i7-9850H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-9850H performs better than the FX-8300. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8300 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the FX-8300 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8300 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9850H. Despite this, the Core i7-9850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9850H outputs less heat than FX-8300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 i7-9850H. Despite this, the Core i7-9850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8300.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8300 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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