AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Pentium G3220

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel Pentium G Series 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Pentium G3220

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 98.55

$ 5.49 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

143% significantly better overall score

1042 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

62% significantly better gaming score

2272 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

190% significantly better multitasking score

744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

190% significantly better heavy workload score

714 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

134% significantly higher Blender score

16.22 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

105% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

883 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

499 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

890 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

527 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

54 W

131% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

936th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Pentium G Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 August

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

Yes

FX-8320 vs Pentium G3220 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8320 is faster than the Pentium G3220. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3220 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the FX-8320 has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Pentium G3220 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3220. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Pentium G3220. The Pentium G3220 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.

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