AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-4870HQ

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

14% slightly better overall score

2285 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

6% slightly better gaming score

3638 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

1884 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

1806 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

57.01 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

2877 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

870 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

3685 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1136 points

132% 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

60% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 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

47 W

165% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

666th 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

2014 August

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 i7-4870HQ comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-4870HQ beats the FX-8350 in overall performance. Despite this, the FX-8350 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4870HQ.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the FX-8350 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.