AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-650

FX-8350 vs Core i5-650 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the FX-8350 has significantly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Core i5-650 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-650. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-650. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-650 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.

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.