AMD FX-8350 vs AMD FX-8370

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 164.99
$ 123.03 significantly less expensive
$ 288.02

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
2% slightly better overall score
2556 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
3% slightly better gaming score
3746 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
2176 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
2091 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
43.47 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2027 points
2035 points
0.39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

493 points
0.41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
491 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1989 points
1998 points
0.45% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

488 points
494 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
Identical
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
Identical
4 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
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
614th of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
FX 8-Core Black Edition

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

-
2014 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

FX-8350 vs FX-8370 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the FX-8350 is faster than the FX-8370. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the FX-8370 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. According to our data, the FX-8350 and FX-8370 have the same clock speed. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches 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.

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