AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-4690

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 i5-4690

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 52.00

$ 112.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

15% slightly better overall score

2266 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4112 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

1744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

1673 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

3081 points

130% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

47.68 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

3261 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1162 points

135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3344 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1212 points

148% 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

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

84 W

48% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

670th 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 i5-4690 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Core i5-4690 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-4690 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. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-4690.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.