AMD FX-8320 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

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

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AMD Phenom II X6 1090T

Price

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$ 104.04

$ 44.00 significantly less expensive

$ 148.04

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2534 points

12% slightly better overall score

2261 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3698 points

1% slightly better gaming score

3641 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2159 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

1833 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2072 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

1759 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.97 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

33.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

620th of 1,089

671st of 1,089

Family

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FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8320 vs Phenom II X6 1090T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8320 beats the Phenom II X6 1090T in overall performance. Despite this, the Phenom II X6 1090T has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1090T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8320 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8320 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1090T. Our comparison shows that the FX-8320 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X6 1090T. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8320 has significantly more L2 cache than the Phenom II X6 1090T. The FX-8320 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.