AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-8850H

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 6 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

3693 points

40% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

5381 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

3183 points

42% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

3075 points

43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

84.41 points

82% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

4703 points

132% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

1291 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

4710 points

136% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

1344 points

175% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

53% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

45 W

177% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

433% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

463rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

FX-8350 vs Core i7-8850H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-8850H performs better than the FX-8350. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8350 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-8850H has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the FX-8350. Our comparison shows that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8850H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8850H. Despite this, the Core i7-8850H has significantly more L3 cache compared to the FX-8350.

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.