AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-3330

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?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Core i5-3330

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99

$ 34.01 slightly less expensive

$ 199.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2623 points

46% significantly better overall score

1786 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3863 points

17% slightly better gaming score

3295 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2225 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

1364 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

63% significantly better heavy workload score

1310 points

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the FX-8350 and the Core i5-3330? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

24.32 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1533 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

538 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1647 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

558 points

14% 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

33% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

77 W

62% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th of 1,118

780th of 1,118

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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

FX-8350 vs Core i5-3330 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Core i5-3330. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3330 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8350 has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3330. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3330 outputs less heat than FX-8350 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.