AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-4460

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 4th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-4460

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 64.04

$ 100.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

28% slightly better overall score

2038 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

3% slightly better gaming score

3756 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

1556 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

42% significantly better heavy workload score

1494 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

2725 points

103% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

41.05 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2935 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1032 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2954 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1068 points

118% significantly 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

24% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 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

84 W

48% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

709th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 May

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 i5-4460 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Core i5-4460 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4460 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the FX-8350 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4460. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4460. The FX-8350 also has slightly 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.