AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-10850H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 164.99
$ 4067.01 significantly less expensive
$ 4232.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
4087 points
55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
5668 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
3607 points
62% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
3489 points
63% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
94.57 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points
5364 points
164% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points
1430 points
190% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points
5383 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points
1451 points
197% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
48% significantly higher clock speed
2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.1 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
45 W
177% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089
427th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

FX-8350 vs Core i7-10850H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10850H beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-10850H has significantly more cores than the FX-8350. Indeed, the Core i7-10850H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the FX-8350. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10850H 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. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-10850H. Despite this, the Core i7-10850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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.

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