AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-2400

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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Price

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$ 164.99

$ 60.50

$ 104.49 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2623 points

37% slightly better overall score

1911 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3863 points

10% slightly better gaming score

3500 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2225 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

1462 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

1403 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

74% significantly higher Blender score

26.55 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1612 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

550 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1606 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

551 points

12% 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

4 GHz

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 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

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th of 1,118

756th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8350 vs Core i5-2400 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i5-2400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2400 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the FX-8350 has more threads. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2400. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2400 outputs less heat than FX-8350 thanks to a slightly 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-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.