AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-4770S

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

0.46% slightly better overall score

2614 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4222 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

2140 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

2055 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

66.55 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

3214 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1052 points

113% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3647 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1178 points

141% significantly 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

29% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

606th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

4th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2013 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 i7-4770S benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4770S beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4770S.

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.