AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i5-750

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?

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Intel Core i5-750

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 39.97

$ 125.02 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

90% significantly better overall score

1380 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

52% significantly better gaming score

2543 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

111% significantly better multitasking score

1054 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

111% significantly better heavy workload score

1012 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

143% significantly higher Blender score

19.06 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1235 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

431 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1182 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

423 points

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

50% significantly higher clock speed

2.66 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

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

845th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs Core i5-750 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the Core i5-750. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-750 in all gaming tests too.

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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-750.

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.