AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-3820QM

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 i7-3820QM

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 334.01 significantly less expensive

$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

37% slightly better overall score

1913 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

26% slightly better gaming score

3059 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

1573 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

41% slightly better heavy workload score

1510 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

41.56 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2717 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

717 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

2007 points

0.90% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

602 points

23% 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

48% significantly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

733rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2012 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 i7-3820QM benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i7-3820QM. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3820QM in all gaming tests too.

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 significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3820QM.

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.