AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-4670K

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99
$ 125.00
$ 39.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
10% slightly better overall score
2369 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
4349 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
22% slightly better multitasking score
1811 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
22% slightly better heavy workload score
1739 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points
3189 points
138% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
49.53 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points
3533 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points
1242 points
151% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points
3701 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points
1301 points
166% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 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
648th 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

-
2013 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

-
No

FX-8350 vs Core i5-4670K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i5-4670K. Despite this, the Core i5-4670K 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. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-4670K. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-4670K. The FX-8350 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.

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