AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i3-1005G1

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i3 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99
$ 252.01 significantly less expensive
$ 417.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
68% significantly better overall score
1557 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
25% slightly better gaming score
3091 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
92% significantly better multitasking score
1157 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
92% significantly better heavy workload score
1109 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
141% significantly higher Blender score
19.22 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points
2296 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points
1234 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points
2396 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points
1289 points
164% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
100% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
233% significantly higher clock speed
1.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed
3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
15 W
733% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089
798th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
10th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2019 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-8350 vs Core i3-1005G1 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Core i3-1005G1. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-1005G1 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the FX-8350 has significantly more cores than the Core i3-1005G1. Indeed, the FX-8350 has 4 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-1005G1. It also has more threads than the Core i3-1005G1. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-1005G1. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i3-1005G1. The FX-8350 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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