AMD FX-8320 vs Intel Pentium G3250

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 G3250

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 44.00

$ 60.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

132% significantly better overall score

1091 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

56% significantly better gaming score

2366 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

175% significantly better multitasking score

783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

174% significantly better heavy workload score

754 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

198% significantly higher Blender score

12.72 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1814 points

92% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

944 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

461 points

559 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1791 points

81% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

987 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points

577 points

25% 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

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

53 W

135% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

925th 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

2014 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 G3250 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Pentium G3250 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Pentium G3250 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8320 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Pentium G3250 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Pentium G3250. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Pentium G3250. The Pentium G3250 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.