AMD FX-8350 vs AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Compare AMD FX 8-Core Black Edition 4 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Phenom II X6 1045T

Price

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$ 164.99

$ 118.01

$ 46.98 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

39% slightly better overall score

1887 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3873 points

28% slightly better gaming score

3022 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2226 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

1539 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2136 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

1476 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

46.35 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

27.64 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

48% significantly higher clock speed

2.7 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

6 MiB

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Ranking in the hardwareDB database

605th of 1,089

744th of 1,089

Family

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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 Phenom II X6 1045T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the FX-8350 performs better than the Phenom II X6 1045T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1045T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Phenom II X6 1045T has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the FX-8350 that has 4 cores. Despite this, the FX-8350 has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1045T. With our hardware info, we find that the FX-8350 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1045T. In terms of cache, the FX-8350 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1045T. The FX-8350 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.