AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-860

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 i7-860

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 54.25

$ 110.74 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

60% significantly better overall score

1632 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

48% significantly better gaming score

2607 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

65% significantly better multitasking score

1342 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

65% significantly better heavy workload score

1289 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

30.74 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

441 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1475 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

451 points

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

42% much higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

21% slightly higher turbo speed

3.46 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

783rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August

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 i7-860 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Core i7-860. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-860 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a much higher clock speed than the Core i7-860. Also, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-860 outputs less heat than FX-8350 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.