AMD FX-8350 vs AMD FX-8320

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

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AMD FX-8320

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 104.04

$ 60.95 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

3% slightly better overall score

2534 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

4% slightly better gaming score

3698 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

2159 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

2072 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

1338 points

2853 points

113% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

37.97 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1814 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

461 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1791 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

458 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

14% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

Identical

125 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

620th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

FX-8350 vs FX-8320 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the FX-8320 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8320 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 slightly higher clock speed than the FX-8320. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and L3 cache.

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.