AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Core i5-3550S

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 i5-3550S

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 45.91 significantly less expensive

$ 149.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

98% significantly better overall score

1279 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

57% significantly better gaming score

2353 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

121% significantly better multitasking score

976 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

121% significantly better heavy workload score

937 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

2383 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

708 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1747 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

619 points

35% slightly 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

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

876th 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-8320 vs Core i5-3550S specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8320 performs better than the Core i5-3550S. Despite this, the Core i5-3550S has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8320 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3550S. The Core i5-3550S outputs less heat than FX-8320 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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-8320 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.