AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Phenom II X4 955

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD 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
$ 59.01
$ 105.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points
58% significantly better overall score
1654 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points
27% slightly better gaming score
3032 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points
75% significantly better multitasking score
1265 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points
75% significantly better heavy workload score
1214 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points
144% significantly higher Blender score
18.93 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
100% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache
0.5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089
781st of 1,089

Family

The product line

FX 8-Core Black Edition
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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FX-8350 vs Phenom II X4 955 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the FX-8350 beats the Phenom II X4 955 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X4 955 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the FX-8350 has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the FX-8350 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Phenom II X4 955. The info from our database shows that the FX-8350 has more L2 cache than the Phenom II X4 955

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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