AMD FX-8350 vs Intel Core i7-920

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 i7-920

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 99.95

$ 65.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

78% significantly better overall score

1474 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

55% significantly better gaming score

2489 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

88% significantly better multitasking score

1179 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

88% significantly better heavy workload score

1132 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

31.28 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1489 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

419 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1431 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

415 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

43% significantly higher clock speed

2.79 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

43% significantly higher turbo speed

2.93 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

4% slightly lower TDP

130 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

814th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2008 November

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 i7-920 comparison

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Core i7-920 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-920 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 significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-920. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache

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.