AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-2600K

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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Price

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$ 164.99

$ 84.99

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

2% slightly better overall score

2571 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4067 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

2123 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

2039 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

3342 points

149% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

44.04 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2292 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

665 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2289 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

665 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 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

95 W

31% slightly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

612th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8350 vs Core i7-2600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i7-2600K. Despite this, the Core i7-2600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600K.

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.